Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with sketch pads in little boats to copy the latest Rush figureheads when new U. S. clippers reached the Thames, and one, a "River God" for the Ganges, was greatly admired by impressionable Hindus. Though the original figurehead for the Constitution was carved by a Boston carver, research has shown that it was after a William Rush design...
What the Vatican is to Catholics, the Ganges to Hindus and Fujiyama to Japanese, a small black meteor head-high in the southeast corner of a rough stone building called the Kaaba in Mecca is to Mohammedans. Every Moslem plans someday to make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to kiss this most sacred of all objects, the Black Stone. On camel, burro, foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey...
...victims of the Quetta earthquake and an additional $9,000 to the academy named after Indian Poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Because his exalted Highness the Nizam is a Mohammedan (a descendant of the last Mogul Viceroy), while about 90% of his 15,000,000 subjects are Hindus, it was discreet in 1902 to appoint a Hindu Prime Minister, the Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Bahadur who was still nourishing last week. Living nowadays in semiretirement, Hindu Sir Kishen leaves the business of running Hyderabad largely to Mohammedan Sir Akbar Hydari, several of whose adroit coups have jolted Islam as well...
...toward solving the problem of Untouchability. Travancore is a South Indian State of 5,000,000 total population, of whom 1,765,000 are Untouchables and, although they may now worship in the State's temples, they will continue to be scorned and ostracized by most caste Hindus, even in Travancore. They will continue to earn meagre livelihoods by performing the "degrading tasks" no caste Hindu will touch, such as cleaning latrines, barbering, cobbling, laundering and Cremating. If an orthodox caste Hindu chances to touch an Untouchable he must cleanse himself by bathing and he is socially ostracized...
...under the new constitution Indians must qualify for the franchise by satisfying elaborater education and property ownership requirements. Composition of the Federal Legislature, partially appointed by Viceroy and Princes, partially indirectly elected from the provinces, is likewise a complicated affair. Its seats are constitutionally apportioned among fixed numbers of Hindus (including the "depressed" classes), Moslems Britons, Indian Christians, Sikhs, Anglo-Indians, representatives of Landholders, Commerce & Industry, Labor, Woman...