Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...identity as victim in a blackmail plot under the pseudonym of "Mr. A." He saved himself $750,000, but had to call upon the British to attain his throne a year later. Since then Moslems in Kashmir have complained bitterly that all the best government places go to Hindus. Last autumn British troops saved his throne when the Mohammedans revolted. Reports last week said that 5,000 Hindus and Moslems have been killed in skirmishes since then. As fresh troops were being rushed across the Himalayas to save his throne again, Sir Hari suddenly decided he could save it himself...
...Gandhi neither brushes his teeth with a toothbrush nor tickles his throat with his forefingers. Like most Hindus he keeps his teeth, gums and tongue clean by rubbing them with a dantan, a slender...
...meaning 'the embodiment of a great soul.' " "What do you think would happen," came the next question, "if we gave India her independence and got out? Don't you know, Mr. Gandhi, that civil war would start and that the Moslems of India would whip the Hindus!" Mr. Gandhi is a Hindu. Nine-tenths and more of his followers are Hindus. Yet at this telling question he shot back, "Even should the Moslems of India eat up all the Hindus they would still be Indians. It would not be too great a price to pay for Indian...
...matter of still deeper humiliation to me that we Hindus regard several million of our kith and kin as too degraded even for our touch. I refer to the so-called untouchables...
...painfully conscious of our own weaknesses. We represent in India all the principal religions of the earth and it is a matter of real humiliation to confess that we are a house divided against itself, that we Hindus and Mussulmans are flying at one another's throats...