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God was more important than the form. Himself a Brahman, who on the whole observed the complex code of this highest Hindu caste, just as Jesus observed Jewish law, Ramakrishna like Jesus never hesitated to break it when his common sense told him to.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prophet of All Gods | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Flit Guns in India | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To Have & To Hold | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Raj Does Not Forget | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

* 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rains And Riots | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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