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Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the Columbia-educated Minister for Law in Nehru's cabinet, is an "untouchable," and heads the largest group of India's 60 million untouchables, the sub-basement of the towering Hindu caste system. In New Delhi last week, testy little Dr. Ambedkar strode on...
Sir: If the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton (as it probably was) [TIME, Sept. 17], then Iwo Jima and the Bulge were won on thousands of football fields in the U.S., where hundreds of thousands of stout-hearted young men have played their hearts...
The reasons are rooted in the British system, British tradition, and British character. First, as a legacy of the old British caste system (which the Socialists may have done much to erase in form, but not in substance), Britons hold public service and political office in higher esteem than people...
But Jean Renoir, a man of great courage and greater art, has achieved the difficult goal he set for himself. He has produced a beautiful version of "The River" that does justice to the original novel. All the excitement of India (the Ganges River and its banks in this case...
Quick, the Needle! Said a village elder: "Before these doctors came, we depended on three brothers belonging to the barber caste. For all types of intestinal and stomach ailments, they prescribed a strong decoction of black pepper. Cholera victims were given opium. Sometimes they recovered, more often they died. The...