Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week nine months of slaughter, pillage, and arson had killed nearly 15,000* Indians (according to low Government estimates), had all but persuaded Britons and Congress leaders that Moslems and Hindus could not cooperate in a unified nation. Almost everybody but Gandhi now accepts the principle of Pakistan (a separate Moslem state or states). Even Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has said: "The Moslem League can have Pakistan if they wish to have it." But he served notice that if India was going to split along communal lines, Congress would not let Jinnah have non-Moslem territories which he claims...
...crimes that have been committed in the name of religion, one of the most glaring is the Hindu doctrine of "untouchability." For centuries, some 40 million human beings, thought by ordinary Hindus to be expiating the sinfulness of former lives, have been barred from all contact with members of so-called upper castes. In some areas, untouchables were even forced to give warning of their contaminating approach along the road. Last week India's Constituent Assembly took a step (still to be implemented) that Congress Party leaders and Indian Christians have long campaigned for: it passed a resolution officially...
...Punjab, athwart the historic northern invasion route, has long been India's political thermometer. Last week it read "high fever." In Lahore, Amritsar, Rawalpindi and over the intervening countryside, Moslems, Sikhs and Hindus slew and burned in wholesale lawlessness unsurpassed in British India in 90 years...
...Punjab riots ended a period of peace that has been jittery ever since the Moslem League's Mohamed Ali Jinnah spurned participation with the All-India Congress in the Constituent Assembly (TIME, Feb. 10). The bearded, sword-carrying Sikhs sided with the Hindus, eventually exceeded them in uncompromising denunciation of the Moslem cry for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state...
...were injured, and thousands of buildings had been smashed or burned. The riots came in a moment of governmental vacuum, after the resignation of Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana's coalition government. The issue was purely and simply Pakistan. The Moslems shouted "Pakistan Zindabad!" (Up with Pakistan!). The Hindus and Sikhs answered back: "Pakistan Murdabad!" (Death to Pakistan!). Then the knives began to flash...