Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suppression. The fact of a riot at Mymensingh, Bengal, was suppressed for 48 hours, after which the Government admitted that 90 persons had been injured, continued to suppress all details...
...Chittagong, a Bengal river port on the other side of India, a well organized band of armed raiders swept down on the town at nightfall, cut all telegraph wires, gutted the police armories and telephone building, fled to the hills. Seven were killed: two Europeans, two native police, three innocent-bystanding taxicab drivers...
Natural history books call them "jaguars" but "tiger" is the local name for the big mottled cats of Brazil, which grow nearly as big (300 Ibs.) and almost as strong as the biggest cats of Bengal. Brazilian cattle-raisers are glad when a tiger is killed. They prey on beeves. Few ranchers bother to hire tiger men and the state pays no bounties but any rancher will outfit a hunter with horses and food. The hunter's income then derives from the sale of skins ($40 each, f.o.b. the jungle) and live cubs ($400 each). Also there are plenty...
...Christians! Refuse to buy their cloth! Die unresisting at their hands! Nauseate them and drive them mad! However in 1922 the Indian followers of Mr. Gandhi were not as thoroughly saturated as he believed with his mass-martyr ideology. They began to riot at Assam, to strike in Bengal, to massacre at Malabar. The nation was unquestionably roused to such a pitch of fervor that, at one word from "Recpolman" Gandhi, the most terrible grapple and insurrection of modern times would have begun. George V knows how many of his subjects' lives Mr. Gandhi saved by dramatically withdrawing the seven...
...Chinsura, Bengal, India, Ratti Sin-drinjian 7, married Djama Courg...