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Word: gurgaon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Happy?" With the political leaders' agreement to partition India had come a lull in communal fighting. But last week it flared again at Lahore in the Punjab. In the Gurgaon district near Delhi, Moslem and Hindu-Sikh tribes still burned and looted each other's villages. There, for the first time in communal riots, firearms were used on a big scale by each side. The embattled tribes had been turning out homemade wooden rifles, six feet long. In a divided India, where 38 million Moslems are still within the borders of Hindu India, 18 million Hindus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: End of Forever | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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