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Word: comilla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murder of several Britishers in Bengal was certain from the moment that Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon issued his ordinance suppressing the right of free speech and many another right (TIME, Dec. 14).* Last week fate made that innocent and worthy bureaucrat Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens, District Magistrate of Comilla, the first victim of fierce Bengalese reprisal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Bengal Pains | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...Miss Santi Ghose, daughter of the late Professor Debendra Ghose of Comilla College, and the other was Miss Sunity Chowdhuri, also an undergraduate. They presented a petition, asking that Mr. Stevens arrange a swimming competition among their classmates. "But my dear young ladies," smiled the Magistrate, "surely your headmistress is the proper person to consult in this matter. However, I will read your petition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Bengal Pains | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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