Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delhi, India...
Overseas seats of learning "adopted' by the Committee for this third world student relief drive are the universities in Athens, Peiping, Delhi, and Heidelberg. The school at East Punjab, India, was included, Robbins said, because W.S.S.F. officials felt that greatest support could be registered here for this slightly less dramatic but no less needy area...
...vehicle selected to bear this man of nonviolence on his last journey was a weapons carrier. Those in charge of the arrangements, recalling Gandhi's opposition to machines, did not let the weapons carrier's motor propel it; men with ropes dragged it through New Delhi's streets. The men were soldiers, and soldiers headed the cortege. Police, about whom Gandhi also had had his doubts, lined the streets. Overhead, military airplanes, built to drop bombs on people Gandhi loved, dropped rose petals on Gandhi's bier. Tanks and armored cars rumbled behind...
...Gandhi found not only the Moslem leader, but many of his own Hindus, opposing attempts at reconciliation. Orthodox Hindus resented his inroads on Hindu customs which Gandhi considered brutal, and therefore indefensible: untouchability, suttee (widow suicide), child marriages. Hindu and Sikh refugees from Moslem hate and murder, pouring into Delhi and other Indian cities, clamored for revenge. The militant Hindu organization Mahasabha (Great Society), to which Gandhi's assassin belonged, worked to make Indiaa purely Hindu state. Patel gave some encouragement to the extremists, which may partly explain why, at Gandhi's funeral, his head was bowed...
Died. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 78; by an assassin's pistol; in New Delhi (see INTERNATIONAL...