Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week's annual get-together Jaipal Singh stayed two days watching his tribesmen dance and cheer for Jarkhand, then flew back to Delhi. As his private plane buzzed over the crowded conference site, the hopeful adibasis greeted it with a shout, "Jaipal Singh, Jai Jarkhand...
...removing Communists, there will be nothing but ruin for this country." Patel did not wait for the unions to arrest Communist leaders. He started a roundup of his own. By week's end, some 1,000 Communists were crammed into already-bulging provincial jails. In the New Delhi legislature a bill was introduced which would impose stiff fines and jail sentences for strikers against essential industries, i.e., railways, postal telegraph and telephone, arms manufactures...
...world's outer reaches, fighting and violence flickered menacingly. A series of military coups and attempted coups ran like a fever through Latin America. In New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered; India's blood bath subsided in shocked dismay and its legislature legally abolished the untouchability which, in life, Gandhi had abominated above all of India's other woes. Under the purposeful hands of David Ben-Gurion, the new state of Israel was born on Judah's ancient soil. Its young armies whipped the Arabs into defeat, rested, and then at year's end renewed...
...Delhi one morning last week, a plump, bespectacled little man in a conspicuously Western suit rose before India's bored Constituent Assembly. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Law Minister and chairman of the constitutional drafting committee, was proposing the eleventh of the new Indian Constitution's 315 articles: "Untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any disability arising out of untouchability shall be an offense punishable according...
Last week in New Delhi's Bhangi colony, where municipal sweepers are lodged and where Mahatma Gandhi once lived, one turbaned Untouchable said: "Thirty years ago, if I entered a shop, I had to stand apart from other customers; if I touched a piece of cloth, I had to buy it. Now I can go anywhere and my children go to school, but I am still a sweeper, and my pay of 65 rupees a month does not buy me what 20 used to." The sweeper had not even heard of the Constituent Assembly, which was sitting only three...