Word: chandra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrestled, India and Indian politics changed along the road. The Indian National Congress, which claimed to represent Indians of every religious community, finally had to admit that Mohamed Ali Jinnah spoke for the Moslems. Left-wing groups left the Congress, Communists led by Puran Chandra Joshi threatened the placid order of the agricultural, home-industrial India which Gandhi strove for. The Congress leadership (since 1941 Gandhi has ruled only from the sidelines) passed more & more to a group of well-to-do conservatives bossed by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel...
Patel himself had been less patient than Prakasam. He had struck at Communist publicists elsewhere in India without waiting for open revolt (TIME, Jan. 27). However, many Red leaders, including Party Boss Puran Chandra Joshi, were still at large, and the Communists were still a menacing factor in the political life of India. Before the war their influence had been negligible...
...Home Ministry denied that it had ordered the raids, but few familiar with the workings of the Criminal Intelligence Department believed that it was coincidence that brought police simultaneously to Red headquarters in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Lucknow and seven other cities. India's Communist leader, smart, tousled Puran Chandra Joshi, followed the Moscow line by blaming the British for the raids...
...Resurrected (after twice being reported dead) but still underground: Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of the Japanese-supported Indian National Army and onetime president of India's Congress Party...
...riots were symptoms of India's deep unrest which Bose had come to symbolize. As the new Central Legislative Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi, not only Bose's brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, but Moslem League Leader Mohamed Ali Jinnah, champion of Pakistan and once a good friend of Britain, denounced British use of Indian troops in Java, demanded their removal...