Word: desai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smash, Burn, Kill. It was a moment the Communists had been preparing for, a fact well known to Chief Minister Morarji Desai of Bombay State, who is often spoken of as Nehru's heir apparent. Before dawn, on Desai's orders, police arrested 435 Communist, Socialist and United Maharashtra Party leaders. The Communists had prepared for this eventuality, too. Secretly trained alternates swiftly swung into action. At their direction, hundreds of thousands of Maharashtrian workers dropped their work and swarmed out of dockyards, textile mills and railroad shops into the streets, shouting "Death to Nehru!" The rioters blocked...
Calcutta, Too. In his house above the city, Chief Minister Desai sadly looked over burning Bombay. Desai, who is a Gujarati, had warned Nehru against dividing India by lingual groups. "Maharashtrians have made a mockery of India's preaching to the world to be nonviolent," he mourned. "If the government yields to Maharashtrian violence, democracy in India becomes mobocracy, and India will be cut to pieces...
Another mob fought its way into the secretariat building of the Bombay Provincial government, shouted down Bombay Chief Minister Morarji Desai and smashed up automobiles in the secretariat courtyard before police dispelled them with rifles, tear gas and lathis (steel-tipped poles). Some 200,000 Bombay factory workers went on strike and all colleges and schools closed. In Bombay streets scores of automobiles had ripped tires, and stones were hurled at passing streetcars and trains. Hundreds of people were forced to remove their neckties "to show respect for the satyagrahis." Bombay Education Minister Dinkarrao Desai, caught...
...cattle. The government sells the milk for them at a commission, expects the project will pay for itself in 35 years. Production is on the way up in the seven farm units already operating at Aarey. Ten more units will be opened this month. Eventually, Milk Commissioner Dara Khurody, Desai's partner in the project, hopes to build an agricultural college at Aarey...
...Desai-Khurody farm shows important progress against two of India's biggest problems: malnutrition, and the misuse of its tremendous cattle population, the world's biggest. Says Khurody: "I want to make this a sort of Mecca to which pilgrims can come from all over India to learn about cow culture...