Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubting Xavier's success. Starting out from Goa, he sailed and walked through southern India, Malaya and the Celebes, then to Japan. His only equipment was a breviary, his Mass kit and a large parasol to protect him from the sun. He impressed Malay sultans and Japanese feudal barons with his poise, and he could sway the commonfolk by his zeal. In three months on the island of Amboina he baptized 1,200. Some of his missionary conquests were permanent-there are Christian Indians today whose ancestors he converted. Others, like his great Japanese mission, were later nullified...
...popular press cried censorship and denounced the ban as "almost feudal." Even the unofficial Church of England Newspaper asked: "Why not let everybody see it who can? The monarchy in this country is not an underground movement." The Socialist Daily Herald huffed that "the ban reflects a stuffiness of mind utterly inappropriate to the 'new Elizabethan...
Under his new dictatorial powers, Mossadegh, himself a wealthy landlord, abolished centuries-old feudal dues and services, and ordered landlords to turn over one-fifth of their rents to the impoverished peasantry. Half of this sum will go to the sharecroppers on each tract. The other half is to be deposited to the credit of local, peasant-run cooperatives which are to be set up in each village to provide low-interest loans, tools, irrigation facilities and drinking water for the peasants. Point Four men on the scene applauded the scheme...
...agent) was a creature of the Turks, who ruled India in the 13th century. His function was simply to skim off a fat slice (often 50%) of the peasant soil-tiller's earnings, keep a cut for himself, and turn the rest over to his superior on the feudal ladder. Under the Moguls, who followed the Turks, India's peasants were systematically exploited but rarely dispossessed...
...Middle Ages . . . the people were, strictly speaking, slaves; bound by feudal tenures, and still more oppressive ecclesiastical restraints...