Word: bharatism
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...festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang." And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians as "Bharatis...
...house in New Delhi. Dalmia, clutching two small gold idols, was carted off to jail while the house resounded to the piercing wails of his wives. The charge against one of the world's richest men: embezzlement of $4,200,000-worth of government bonds from his own Bharat Insurance Co., keystone of his empire...
...anti-Christian sparks have already spread to the neighboring state of Madhya Bharat, where a similar investigating committee has been appointed. In Assam, the Christians are currently accused of inciting local tribesmen to revolt; in Travancore Cochin, where 3,000,000 of India's 8,000,000 Christians live, they are being accused of plotting to make the area an "independent Christian state...
...score to attend the wedding feast he gave his grandson. Local villagers expressed their admiration for him in reverently hushed voices. Even a government committee set up to examine his affairs in 1952 declared that Man Singh was a man "of no private vices." Nonetheless, the government of Madhya Bharat province could not overlook a police file which recounted in more than one ton of official documents a gory tale of 185 murders and more than 1,000 robberies committed by Man Singh over nearly 27 years. Man Singh was not only a respected local chieftain, but the fiercest...
...Singh's head. Through the years, the police of four states schemed, connived and risked their lives to collect it, but Man Singh was always too quick for them. Last year, after Man Singh slipped through his fingers once again, Narasinghrao Dixit, the home minister of Madhya Bharat province, vowed to resign if he failed to trap the notorious dacoit within a year...