Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coming up the grand trunk highway from New Delhi, you could see as far away as 14 miles clouds of smoke hanging over Amritsar. Now & then the high golden cupola of the Sikh's Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...
...Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, and Captain Peter Maitland Longmore, 25; in a lavish Lenten ceremony attended by eight maharajas, nine members of the Interim Government; on the day of the announcement of Viscount Wavell's replacement by Viscount Mountbatten (see FOREIGN NEWS); in New Delhi...
...Delhi University Packed...
Three thousand people swarmed to Delhi University, jammed together on wooden benches, and sat on the ground in chilling Indian weather to hear the American astronomer predict what a Newsweek correspondent called "a great intellectual awakening" in India. "I have never spoken," said Professor Shapley, "to a more responsive, alert, and eager audience. India is one of the hopes for the world. The sky is the limit for scientific research in India...
...raiders were more thorough than bright. They searched homes as well as offices, spent 5½ hours going through the files of one Delhi office. A police official turned up a copy of Molotov's famous Paris speech of Aug. 5. He did not like what he read. "Who is this man?" he snapped. But Molotov was present only in spirit...