Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them. In the 1937 election the League won only 104 of the 480 seats reserved for Moslems in the eleven Provincial Assemblies; of 7,000,000 Moslem voters, only 300,000 voted the League ticket. Jinnah's importance is that he epitomizes the Moslems' fear of the Hindus?and this religious civil strife is the chief obstacle to Sir Stafford's mission...
India is nothing if not selfconscious: Indians derive both humor and a satisfying sense of tragedy from their hopelessly internecine differences. As Sadhu Singh Dhami, a distinguished Sikh scholar, said last week: "The cow is sacred to the Hindus and pork repulsive to Moslems. . . . The Hindus are rather noisy in their ritual and greet an interesting variety of mute gods with a blare of conch shells and din of gongs, while the Moslems' worship of Allah is austere and silent and includes a bit of healthy physical exercise. The Moslem is circumcised, while the Hindu is not; the Moslem...
...away evil luck, he blows a bleating blast on a sankha, an instrument shaped like a big ocarina. Last week, in Manhattan's tiny Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, there was both gong-beating and sankha-blowing. The occasion was an evening of Hindu dances, put on by two Hindus, Bhupesh Guha and Sushila, who live, teach and foster their dance troupe in the backwaters of Manhattan...
Many Westerners have made the long journey to India to study the mysteries of natya (ancient laws and rules of Hindu drama and dance). Dancers Guha and Sushila did the opposite. Hindus themselves, they were both in the U.S. when they decided to devote themselves to the infinite hours of study that natya demands. Guha's father, a district mayor and judge in India, had sent him to Germany to study engineering. He had finished his studies in the U.S., was installing refrigeration equipment in Waynesboro, Pa. Sushila (she uses no last name) was sent by her mining-engineer...
Bhupesh Guha & Sushila did not put on such a show as to erase memories of the great Uday Shan-Kar (now running his culture center in India), but their dance program provided a rare opportunity to see real Hindus doing real Hindu dances...