Word: chandra
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...revolt. The Congress was split wide open: the followers of Mahatma Gandhi on the one hand, the advocates of activism-ranging all the way from Communists through middle-of-the-road Moslems to extreme Conservatives-on the other. The situation was tense because the latter were led by Subhas Chandra Bose, the only Indian who has come anywhere near successfully opposing Gandhi...
...this took place while the Mahatma toured Bengal, home province of fiery Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian Leftist leader whom the Mahatma ousted last year as president of the Indian National Congress Party. The Leftists, who think that now is the ideal time to snatch Indian independence away from war-beset Great Britain, have accused the Mahatma of too much dickering and stalling with the British...
...because native consumption is so large. With the Japanese now in control of the tea provinces, Chinese tea exports have been jumped, prices cut sharply under that of Empire tea. And Empire prices may soon be forced up if India's Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose succeeds in his current campaign to jack up tea laborers' wages, now 15 shillings a month for men, ten for women, three for children...
...Chandra was succeeded by his brother General Bhim Shem Shur. This Maharaja has since died and was succeeded by his brother General Joodha Shem Shur who is the present Maharaja...
...happens that the writer is the only American who was ever invited to come to Katmandu and it was His Highness Sir Chandra Shem Shur who called him there...