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...capital of Nagpur, Politician Shukla brought the campaign to a climax. Behind a crowd-catching corps of dancing drummers and yellow-painted naked men wearing tails to look like tigers, a horde of Hindus danced past the twin-spired Anglican cathedral. They moved on to the great statue of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, round whose pachydermous head flared a halo of electric lights. Meanwhile, people crowded the hall of the legislative assembly to watch Christians trying to answer such needling questions as: "If a mission doctor prays to the Christian God before performing an operation on a Hindu patient...
...were raised, it would pay the city's poor to go into the business of rat-raising and Bombay would wind up with more rats than ever. Councillor Gordhandas Goculdas Moraji, an orthodox Hindu, shuddered at even considering rat extermination during the current festival in honor of Ganapati (Ganesha), an elephant-headed god who likes to ride around on a rat (see cut). Councillor Dinkar Dattatrya gave what he called the "socialist theory on rats": he declared that "only eradication of the slums, overcrowding and hoarding would result in eradication of the rats." In the end, the councillors voted...