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...King and I. The score of the newest Rodgers & Hammerstein hit. For listening purposes, Victor's album with Opera Stars Robert Merrill and Patrice Munsel joining voices with Pop Singers Dinah Shore and Tony Martin has the edge on Dacca's original-cast album starring Gertrude Lawrence...
Then in 1921, a loinclothed mendicant with long, matted hair and body smeared with ashes turned up in Dacca. Rumor said he was the dead Kumar, and the tenants rushed to hear the beggar's story. Roy (if it was the Kumar) said the brother-in-law had poisoned him in Darjeeling. As he lay, unconscious but not dead, on his funeral pyre, a great rain had revived...
Nearly 2,000 people were injured, more than 200 killed in India last week as a result of fierce riots in the north (Peshawar), east (Rangoon and Dacca), west (Bombay), and in the centre (Lucknow...
...Calcutta, Dacca, Barisal, Mymen-singh and numerous other places, he stirred the people to revolt nonviolently against the British. The Swaraj* movement began. He started a newspaper, the Narayana, to aid the cause. He attacked the white officials as a class and he attacked most bitterly the domineering merchants who had, he alleged, come to India for ill-got gain. But his attachment to the King-Emperor never wavered in the most difficult moments. All that he wanted was freedom for Indians within "the most glorious empire in history...
Hira Lal Roy '13, Price Greenleaf, Panchpaika Dacca, Bengal, India, National College (Calcutta, India...