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By "communalism" he meant India's ancient and narrow religious practices. The princes, priests and fanatics, with the ancient magic of caste and superstition, obscured Nehru's dream of a modern, self-sufficient India. Last week, with three-fourths of the returns counted in the Indian republic'...
As anonymous as his name, Blank has been working over his blueprint for more than a year. No military man himself (he was a conscript in World War II), Blank is a trade union official, a wheel horse in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party. He declares himself...
Brahmachari had but one plank in his platform: uncompromising opposition to the Nehru-sponsored Hindu Code Bill, which sanctions inter-caste marriage, relaxes the prohibition against marriage between cousins seven times removed, and, for the first time, makes divorce possible -though still very difficult-for Hindu women. Wrote Brahmachari: "The...
Brooks has kinder words for most of these writers than he has for Edith Wharton and her skilled and snobbish novels about rich New Yorkers. "She was always ready with cold stares," complains Brooks, "for those who encroached in any way on the small caste-prerogatives that she valued so...
He was angry at delays in the passage of the new Hindu Code Bill (which he drew up), which forbids polygamy, liberalizes inheritance laws for women, and legalizes inter-caste marriage.