Word: dewan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came Indian troops, and a dewan or Prime Minister furnished by India. When the Reds seized neighboring Tibet, India made Sikkim a protectorate, posted troops on the Tibetan border to prevent the smuggling of Communist propaganda in mule trains, required all visitors to Sikkim to give two weeks' notice before getting clearance to enter the country...
Watch Against Evil. Ironically, it is the dewan sent in from India who leads the battle against "evil outside influences." The present dewan, buoyant N. K. Rustomji, spent 18 years in Britain, but has become so attached to his work that he walks around Sikkimese style in a gleaming, embroidered bakkhu with a Great Dane said by the Sikkimese to be a reincarnation of Albert Einstein. The dewan considers his main task to be "the Sikkimization" of Sikkim-the attempt to preserve Sikkim's culture and identity from too much Tibetan or Chinese influence. The Indians are also pushing...
...dewan worries about Sikkimese students who copy "some cute design" from an Indian magazine. "We must watch very carefully," he warns. Both he and the crown prince are aware of ushering in the 20th century too rapidly. When Gangtok's first movie house opened a few years back, Sikkim's young people took one look and promptly went out and engaged in drunken brawls and prostitution. The movie was closed down...
...Adams KO'd Eliot's Jim Smith in the second, after sending him to the canvas four times. Warren Bradbury of Leverett took a decision over Tom Howes of Dunster House in the 155-lb. class. Lindsay Fischer of the Bunnies lost on a decision to Dunster's Otis Dewan...
Kirkland's George McGarrity led the scoring with 19 points and the jump shots of McGarrity and Dick Fisher secured the Deacon victory. The Funsters' strength lay in the shooting of forward Otis Dewan and center Don Yaceshin...