Word: bihar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slim Bombay Parsi with an easy sense of humor and a pleasant, informal manner. Her grandfather was Dadabhai Naoroji, first president of the Indian National Congress and first Indian member of the British Parliament. She was recently released from prison. First jailed (for her political views) in Bihar, she was moved under escort of eight armed policemen and one wardress to the Poona jail. On the train the sleepy police men handed her their revolvers to guard. She asked: "How can you dare do this?" Answer : "Oh, we know you're nonviolent...
...Jinnah, emerging as India's No. 1 political figure during the suppression of the Congress party, shouted his battle cry of Pakistan. Behind him, huge maps indicated that Pakistan (a separate Moslem state) took in all three North Western provinces and vaulted over the huge United Provinces and Bihar to include Bengal and Assam in the northeast. This was the most ambitious claim to territories since Jinnah had first espoused Pakistan as a slogan to bargain against Hindu political domination. The directed cheers of his party and the pandal (huge tent) bright with Pakistan banners (see cut) heartened...
...When bird nesting in Bihar [India]," he writes, "I was strolling alongside a high, dense cactus hedge when my attention was drawn to a bird [female cuckoo] flying up from behind over my head and settling on the ground about 25 paces beyond me. I ran up to within about ten paces, screened from her sight by a bush, and then saw she was sitting quietly on a small mound, back to me and quite motionless. Presently I saw her put her head down and her shoulders heave, as if she were being sick, and then immediately...
...protestations over the mishandling of the Indian crisis apparently carried none. The House of Commons debated a new India Bill (to bypass court appeals in cases of military executions). When Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, announced that British planes were being used to machine-gun mobs in Bihar Province (TIME, Oct. 5), Tory backbenchers burst into cheers...
...specially constructed city of bamboo huts, roofed with waterproofed hubla nettings, equipped with waterworks and baths, deep in the malarious, tiger-infested Hazaribagh jungle of Bihar, over 100.000 Congress members had gathered. The site, Ramgarh village, had been chosen because 20 years' meteorological records showed it to be among Indian towns least subject to the torrential rains of March...