Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this interpretation of the rules, Nehru would not play. Jinnah said that unless he got his way, the 75 Moslem League seats would be vacant when the Constituent Assembly met in New Delhi to draft free India's constitution...
Died. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, 85, revered Indian scholar and Nationalist, champion of orthodox Hinduism; in New Delhi. A former president of India's Congress Party, longtime friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he helped to found and was the guiding spirit of famed Benares Hindu University, which has become the center of the ancient Vedic (Hindu) culture...
...Mohamed Ali Jinnah up to? In a sharp reversal of his policy of last July the lean, leathery Moslem League leader agreed last week to nominate five men to the All-India Congress presided over by his archrival, Pandit Nehru. But he had named third-raters: in New Delhi, prominent Moslems boasted that the League had joined the coalition with the idea of breaking...
...twelve members of India's pre-independence government trooped dutifully down to New Delhi's "Untouchables Colony" last week. They were reporting to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the unseen presence in the councils of the new regime, what the first weeks of Indian sovereignty added up to. They...
...been peculiarly marked by a lack of action: by vague peregrinations of "passive resistance" by Eastern political religiosos in Bombay and Calcutta, by glib protestations of Occidental parlor progressives in London and Washington, and by the well-meaning, but weak movements of British diplomats between Simla and New Delhi. All have realized the genuine desire of the Indian for liberty, but all have tried to build from the top, speaking of the establishment of ministries and legislatures and agencies, and overlooking, in their plans, proposals for pulling the average Indian out of the squalor and ignorance in which...