Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian government's biggest objection to the Nizam is that he has elevated the Moslem minority of the population to a position of power and privilege. Of Hyderabad's 17 million, only two million are Moslems. Yet in the army and police, Moslems outnumber Hindus nine to one, and in other government services, six to one. The privileged Moslem minority rules on the principle that Hindus must be kept "in their place." For instance, in Hyderabad railway stations, there are separate refreshment rooms labeled "Moslem Tea Room" and "Hindu Tea Room...
High Prophet. Those who greeted him included men in loincloths, women with bare breasts, pious Hindus with shaven heads, Moslems boldly wearing red fezzes. One aged grandmother had come six miles from her village to see Nehru. After glimpsing him, she said patronizingly in her vernacular: "He's a nice enough looking fellow." She confided she had expected to see some sort of a king...
Moscow's foreign press corps thought Cecilia Nelson Kohonen a fairly harmless person. A small (5 ft. 2 in.), pleasant-faced blonde of 33, she was a native of Michigan who had renounced her U.S. citizenship. She had done secretarial work for Visiting Reporters Edgar Snow and Maurice Hindus, and for the U.S. Embassy. For two years she worked part-time for Robert Magidoff, 42, correspondent for McGraw-Hill, Britain's Exchange Telegraph news agency...
...R.S.S.S. had been to make India a Hindu state, with rule based on Hindu customs and scriptures, where Moslems and other non-Hindus would be at best tolerated strangers. In recent months R.S.S.S. recruits (beginning at eight years of age) have been drilled to hate Congress leaders. One exercise was to smash pictures of Gandhi. Another: to wear pictures of Gandhi and Nehru on the inner soles of their shoes, a supreme mark of disrespect...
...Mahasabha (Great Society), which has worked for all-Hindu rule in India, escaped official outlawing by resolving to shun political activity. But so far it had not dared to strike at the fiercely anti-Moslem Sikh groups. As the 13-day official period of mourning for the Mahatma ended, Hindus and Moslems waited to see what would come next...