Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Superficially, this made it appear as if a great galvanization of India's already promising war effort might be coming nearer. The Congress, with some 3,600,000 dues-paying members, is the most potent political body among India's 240,000,000 Hindus. The Moslem League, strongest party among India's 80,000,000 Moslems, came out for full support to Britain a year ago. But the Congress has long insisted on some British guarantee of increased self-government for India as a condition of all-out war effort. This week, a group of Indian moderate...
Millions of Hindus follow gnarled little Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who favors pacifist isolationism, not as a means of hurting Britain's war effort, but in order to keep the Nationalist movement alive. Millions of other Hindus, including many members of Gandhi's own Indian National Congress party, watching Adolf Hitler's approach to India beyond the Caucasus and Japan's approach beyond Burma, are prepared to fight against the Axis-if Indian self-government seems likely. Other millions are already fighting hard, in factories and in Britain's Middle Eastern ranks. And many millions feel...
...word izzat was borrowed from the Hindus and Persians, who swiped it from the Arabic. In Arabic, izzat (freely translated) means: the most utterly glorious magnificence...
...them to his own music; published nearly 100 volumes of poetry, some 40 volumes of novels and short stories, some 50 volumes of literary, political, religious essays, scores of children's stories. A lecturer, a dreamer of universal brotherhood, which he was never able to bring about between Hindus and Moslems, his purpose was to harmonize the mystical mind of the East with the Western rationalism...
...succeeding decade the power of the Congress grew until it came to represent not only the vast majority of India's 240,000,000 Hindus but many of her 78,000,000 Moslems. War has brought the revolution nearer. Never in history have Britons and Indians been so far apart...