Word: castee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In ten months the Communists have grown from virtual oblivion (they were banned from 1934 to July 23, 1942) to challenge the Hindu Mahasabha as India's third strongest political party. Their internal program is for land division, higher wages, a breaking down of all restrictions of caste, creed...
This American radical, confronting the dangers which will threaten his country after the war, will be "a fanatic believer in equality." Though he will be willing, in times of peace, to let salaries and earnings exceed $25,000 a year (for he believes in equality of opportunity, not of rewards...
He believes that to handle it properly involves this: setting up Federally financed but State-operated machinery for retraining the veterans and placing them in jobs, plus possibly agencies to lend money to groups of competent veterans who might start small retail or manufacturing businesses. Should the veterans feel they...
Such a mongrel was little Nawnim (No Name), half-caste son of Mark Shillingsworth. Father Mark spent his time between pearl diving, trepang fishing, debtors' jail, bouts with delirium tremens in the local hospital.
Plenty Bandicoot. Nawnim became Norman, was sent to be educated in the caste-free South, accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when...