Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again, Gandhi fasted. Princes and untouchables gathered in New Delhi to glimpse the dozing little man in a loin cloth, and to hear the latest medical bulletins. This time, however, a jarring note sounded. A small crowd of unsympathetic Hindus and Sikhs began to shout: "Let Gandhi die!" From an automobile lunged Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who is India's Johnny-on-the-spot as Fiorello LaGuardia was Manhattan's. Cried Nehru: "How dare you say that? Kill me first!" Nehru chased the dissidents down the street. Inside, Gandhi dozed...
...accused doctor said he had been in Lahore, 250 miles away from Delhi, on the day of the crime. He produced a long list of high Pakistan officials as witnesses. All of them were Moslems...
Thousands of Indians murdered their fellowmen last year. Few were arrested, none convicted-because legal evidence is difficult to procure when the ordinary man counts perjury a duty if it helps a friend or relative. In Delhi's dingy Sessions Court last week, a murder trial ended which demonstrated India's problem of crime & punishment...
...morning of Sept. 8, as rioting mounted in Delhi, a crowd of Moslems gathered ominously near a hospital run by a quiet little Hindu physician named N. C. Joshi. Even his Moslem neighbors in the slums of Karol Bagh district had known and liked Dr. Joshi for his work among the poor. This morning, however, the neighbors were armed with knives and spears. Dr. Joshi came out of the hospital. Someone fired a rifle. The good doctor dropped dead with a bullet in the skull...
Next day in Nagpur, Patel got reluctant signatures from a dozen more maharajas. He returned to Delhi from his whirlwind trip within 96 hours from the time he set out, with eight million more people and 56,000 more square miles of territory (about the size of Illinois) for India...