Word: chettiar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nehru's views were not shared by many of the 36 legislators who took part in the argument. Most of them spoke in English. They offered more than 300 amendments. Southerners were most vehement. They hooted and jeered at pro-Hindi spokesmen, denounced "Hindu imperialism." Madras Representative Ramalingam Chettiar complained: "The way north Indians are trying to dominate us and dictate to us is galling ... I have been in Delhi for two years, and no north Indian has so far invited me even once for social functions, just because I don't know Hindi...
Bright & White. Of all the provincial delegation gathered at Jaipur, the Madrasis were the strictest adherents to Congress rules. Their leading crusader is a 45-year-old bacheloi named Avinashilingam Chettiar, Minister of Education for Madras province. A great admirer of the late Mahatma Gandhi, Chettiar invariably wears a jibba (a loose long-sleeved shirt) and a Gandhi-type loincloth. As a member of the provincial cabinet, he voted with the majority to forbid expansion of the textile industry, on the ground that it would conflict with the ministry's "wear more khadi" program. Recently in the Madras legislature...
Last week, Chettiar set out to clean up India's film industry. His new code of film censorship: "No picture shall be passed [by the board of film censors] which lowers the moral standards of those who see it." Films must not contain any drinking scenes or obscene words, nor should gods and goddesses in the ancient Hindu epics go strutting about the screen clad in a light or frivolous manner. Cried one harassed producer: "If all these rules are enforced, 90% of our films [in production] will never reach the screen...
Sweet & Soft. This was too much for the English-language daily, the Madras Mail, which quoted an exasperated woman's comment on Chettiar: "Why does not someone find him a wife?" The Mail observed: "The Minister's puritanism . . . derives from the absence of sweet softening feminine influences in his life. Now that the question has been broached, someone among the many matchmakers in South India will perhaps succeed in providing Bachelor Avinashilingam with a wife. We sincerely hope...
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