Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driven to open revolt, Bhansali became involved in investigations of an incident at the village of Chimur. There a mob killed three constables and a sub-inspector, then burned their bodies. British troops arrested 321 men, imposed a collective fine of 100,000 rupees on Chimur's Hindus, and sentenced 20 to be hanged, 26 to life imprisonment. Later the British modified their punishment (14 to die; 27 to receive life sentences), but ruled out Indian protests that the soldiers had looted homes and raped 13 women. Bhansali traveled to Delhi and asked the Viceroy's Council...
...harassed Raj, the action was belatedly graceful and politically wise. For the Congress it was a great moral victory. Bhansali drank a glass of msambi juice to break his fast. Crowds of Hindus garlanded his gaunt neck with flowers...
...Black Dragon headquarters for years sheltered revolutionaries and murderers from other lands. Mr. Byas should recall instantly the haven given to Ricarte of the Philippines, the man who returned to Manila early this year to follow up Japanese occupation of the islands. Not to be overlooked are two Hindus, both married to Japanese, and their maintenance underwritten by Toyama and his followers. They are Rash Behari Bose, and K. Sabarwal, leaders of many mass meetings where Japanese-inspired anti-England haranging was engineered...
...Wherever I look," he said, "I see men quarreling in the name of religion -Hindus, Mohammedans, Brahmos, Vaish-navas, and the rest. But they never reflect that He who is called Krishna is also called Siva, and bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well -the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats [bathing-places]. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it ' jal' ; at another the Mussulmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani.' At a third the Christians call...
...Outside the Congress, "and fundamentally opposed to it, are 90,000,000 Moslems in British India [cries of "Nonsense!" and "Order, Order"] . . . 50,000,000 Untouchables . . . and 95,000,000 subjects of the Princes of India." (The facts: The British have previously recognized the Congress as spokesman for the Hindus; Moslems, represented only in part by the Moslem League, also want independence; in the larger princely states the Congress has some of its strongest support...