Word: bharatism
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...Bharat Dube '83: No, definitely not, because I believe that the only way for people to combat Reagan's policies is to fight fire with fire. Specifically, people like Qadadafi (of Libya) and Zia al-Haq (of Pakistan) might possibly be prompted into using nuclear threats in order to bargain with the super-powers...
...wanted, Pakistan accepted the ruling fairly graciously and promised to abide by it. The reception in India was testy. The Indian press complained about the "justice" of international courts, and the noisy opposition parties accused Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress Party of sacrificing a bit of Bharat Mata-Mother India-to the hated Pakistanis. The opposition even introduced a no-confidence motion, which will probably come to a vote this week. Since Indira commands a comfortable majority in Parliament, she is unlikely to be beaten, but the nationalist Jana Sangh Party has already vowed to make the Rann...
Though Indians smoldered, they really could not complain. Bharata was a legendary Hindu hero so revered that his name became the Sanskrit word for all India, and after India became independent in 1947, traditionalists put into the new constitution this opening sentence: "India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States." Even today, India's state-owned radio uses Bharat in Hindi-language programs, but, as one Indian put it, "It is one thing to hear a Hindi-speaking news reader say 'Bharat,' and another to have it leap up at you in print...
...Pakistani twist to the word implies that India is a nation centered on a faith, just as Pakistan is, and that neither has a right to the word-India-that both used to share. Pakistani editors practiced Bharatism so zealously, automatically changing the word India every time it turned up, that they would, for example, misquote President Eisenhower as referring to Nehru as the "Prime Minister of 'Bharat.' " The results often got ludicrous. When Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy visited the U.S. as Pakistan Prime Minister two years ago, Pakistani readers learned that he had been presented with a "Bharati...
...growing cordiality between Pakistan's President Ayub Khan and Nehru, Indians became Indians once more, even in Pakistan. The request came straight from Ayub. Bombay's Free Press Journal responded gratefully: "This change of attitude of the Pakistani press is welcome in India that WAS Bharat...