Word: bihar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every local disgruntled Indian seemed to be threatening to use satyagraha as a weapon against Nehru's government: Socialists protesting the Congress Party's corruption, right-wingers protesting the Congress Party's socialism Communists protesting against anybody and everything. On a flying tour of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states, Nehru was shocked to discover "fissiparous tendencies" among rebellious students, Sikhs Moslems and militant groups of all kinds here were other "fissiparous tendencies" among India's millions who speak Telegu Malayalam and Tamil, who are raising a Babel cry for linguistic states of their...
Philosophy in the Rain. At midweek, Nehru collected an escort of Indian M.P.s and flew in an air force Dakota (DC-3) over the flood-devastated provinces of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. Hundreds had drowned; scores of thousands were homeless in an area almost the size of South Carolina. Later, from a low-flying helicopter, Nehru saw the levees disintegrate and the river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills...
...this time of year, before the summer rains, the bare, broken landscapes of India's Bihar state are hazy with the furnacelike heat. This does not stop Bihar's holy men from tramping the dusty roads, day after day. Nor did it stop 550 disciples of the late Mohandas K. Gandhi from gathering last week at a village called Sarvodayapuri. They met to celebrate the third anniversary of the land-gift movement founded and led by saintly, frail Vinoba Bhave, India's nearest living equivalent to Gandhi (TIME, May 11, 1953). Bhave's movement urges those...
Zealots' Reproach. Born to a poor peasant 51 years ago in a remote Bihar village, Jaya Prakash Narayan never saw a trolley car until he was 19. When he won a government scholarship, the facts of Indian life crowded in on him all at once. He joined Gandhi's civil disobedience movement. Thirsty for learning but respecting Gandhi's boycott of the British-controlled universities, Narayan went to the U.S. to study. He worked his passage to California, got a job sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science...
From New Delhi, TIME Correspond ent Joe David Brown recently wrote me about his experiences covering the news of India. "One time I should look back on. I suppose," wrote Brown, "is the week I spent in the wilds of Bihar while doing the research for the cover story on Vinoba Bhave [TIME, May 11];. Much of the time was spent trekking through the tiger-and the elephant-infested jungles. Since Bhave and his followers are strict practition ers of ahimsa (nonviolence), and are not even supposed to resist a man-eat ing tiger or a rogue elephant, each...