Word: calcuttas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hasty Raids. Meanwhile, the Nepali Congress exiles gathered in Calcutta, where their grievances against the King won quick sympathy from Indian press and politicians. Though conceding that Nepal is a sovereign state, India has continued the practice of the British raj in trying to exercise control over the mountain kingdom. Nehru's government poured $56 million in economic aid into Nepal and supplied it with arms; in return, Nepal exports to India rice, timber, and the tough little Gurkha soldiers who make up India's crack regiments...
Prime Minister Nehru righteously castigated Mahendra's behavior as a "setback to democracy." But the leader of the Nepali exiles in Calcutta is not quite as democratic as Nehru might have wished. He is General Subarna Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana, a member of Nepal's deposed, autocratic old ruling family. Since last December, under his command, the rebels have mounted dozens of armed attacks on Nepali villages and police posts. Typically, a few score guerrillas will pop out of the jungle, bloodlessly seize a town, run up the Nepali flag with a picture of Subarna, loot the local...
...over the subcontinent, candidates for the 494 seats in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) and 2,930 seats in 13 state assemblies were on the stump. Groups of Communist Party workers gathered in Calcutta streets to act out skits on such issues as high prices, high rents and poor public transportation. A candidate in the Punjab campaigned from his jail cell; he was accused of trying to assassinate his opponent. In the Himalayan constituency of Ranikhet, a Congress Party aspirant promised to deal with his district's most urgent problem-a tiger that has so far devoured...
...matter how remote Himalayan tigers or even Calcutta Communists, Americans have an important stake in this outsize election. During the past 15 years, the U.S. has funneled $2.4 billion in aid into India. Though its interpretation of neutralism is often irritating to the West, India is the world's most populous (438 million) democracy, and could be a major force for freedom in Asia. Or it could merely be a confused and drifting giant, at the mercy of its fiercely aggressive Communist neighbor...
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