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Congress Party leaders dutifully took these proposals home, blandly proposed the merging of Bengal and Bihar (total pop. 65 million), the merging of Bombay state with huge slices of Madhya Pradesh and Hyderabad (approx. pop. 43 million), the merging of Madras with Mysore and Travancore-Cochin (approx. pop. 55 million). Gasped the opposition parties: a plot to hold power through creating a group of superstates...
...painted to ward off the evil eye. Said one social worker: "The 20th century is living next to the 10th." In a village near Beersheba, a group of five young Israelis who answered Ben-Gurion's call to live with the newcomers found a group of Jews from Cochin China-dark-skinned, resigned, pious and poor-who seemed to share nothing with the new state except the blue sky above. Said the nurse: "They were as foreign to us as the hinterland of India...
...anti-Christian sparks have already spread to the neighboring state of Madhya Bharat, where a similar investigating committee has been appointed. In Assam, the Christians are currently accused of inciting local tribesmen to revolt; in Travancore Cochin, where 3,000,000 of India's 8,000,000 Christians live, they are being accused of plotting to make the area an "independent Christian state...
Choose Your Picture. In much of the Cochin China countryside in South Viet Nam a curious duality of administration exists. In Mytho there is a regular government court. But most of the townspeople take their grievances to a Communist court three kilometers outside the town...
...Viet Nam nation is a recent French consolidation of three ancient provinces: Tonkin, Annam and Cochin China. The Chinese ruled Tonkin and northern Annam for more than the 1,000 years, until they were expelled in the 10th century by native Annamites who were themselves of part-Chinese stock. About 150 years ago, the Annamites split into warring factions, and French missionnaires and traders moved in along the coast. By 1802, the French were strong enough to install a puppet king on the imperial throne of Annam; by 1870, the French army was ashore to protect French interests...