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...university decreed a return to the pre-British forms. Mukerjees, Chatterjees and Bannerjees would find themselves listed as Mukhopadhyaya, Chattopad-hyaya and Bandopadhyaya. Anything simpler, Calcutta nationalists swore, would be a British imperialist corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: E Pluribus | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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