Word: castee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A new method of fighting malaria-commonest disease on earth-is being used to protect the residents of Delhi, India's capital, and the U.S. troops quartered there from the epidemic now raging among the 100,000,000 people of northwest India. Gangs of trained workmen go from house...
Kate L. Mitchell, with facts at her fingertips and her heart on her sleeve, has compressed India into 289 pages of polemic research and a seven-page, let's-do-something-about-it epilogue. She has no warm appreciation of the vagaries of the Hindu caste system, no piercing...
One of Junior's remote ancestors used to potshoot Brahmans to relieve an inferiority complex because he himself was born in a lower caste. His grandfather was a horse-racing hellion. His father was forced to abdicate after a scandal with the dancing girl Mumtaz Begum, but later settled...
* 1941 population figures by religions: Hindus, believing in reincarnation, caste, polytheistic pantheism, soulforce: 239,195,140; Moslems, believing there is no god but Allah: 77,093,000; Sikhs, believing in a hodgepodge of Hindu and Moslem creeds: 4,335, 771; Christians: 6,296,763; Jains, believing all animals are sacrosanct...
"But there is the other side to the picture, the ugly side of cruelty, brutality and utter bestiality, the ruthlessness and rapaciousness of the Japanese military machine which brought on this war. That Japanese military machine and military caste and military system must be utterly crushed. . . .