Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atman in Hindustani means soul. With literal accuracy TIME could speak of Mahatma or "Great Soul" Gandhi. But in English such terms produce no clear cut impression. TIME, eschewing the nebulous, uses "St." for brevity and precision, as the shortest way of indicating that millions of Hindus revere the Mahatma exactly as Christians would a 1930 Saint...
Partial starvation is often a sociological problem. In Greek Catholic countries the religion calls for fasting on almost half the days of the year. Hindus fast for days to solve their moral problems. Saint Gandhi has fasted 21 days without appreciable harm...
...should like to call your attention to an in-accurate figure that was published in yesterday's CRIMSON, in the article on the "Indian Situation", regarding the proportion of Muslims to Hindus in India...
...cotton-spinning metropolis of 12,000 - was for a time virtually ruled by various mobs, some followers of the Saint, others a nondescript rabble out to loot while looting was good. After 50 deaths, 400 woundings, disorder continued. As a crowning horror three Mohammedan policemen were seized by Hindus, drenched with gasoline and burned. Despatches disagreed as to whether they were "burned alive...
Last week Mohammedans celebrated their "Festival of the Sacrifice," their Id al-adha, with slaying of animals and donations of the flesh to the poor. In New York City the festival had unusual significance. It disclosed the fact that the city has 18,000 Moslems?Polish Tartars, Albanians, Turks, Hindus, Arabs, Malays, Filipinos. Some 700 assembled at Brooklyn for the first time for prayer, prostration and sacrifice...