Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jawaharlal Nehru thought he knew where India's dragon lay, and went off to slay him. "Communalism," he declared, "is India's greatest enemy. In the north, this communal poison has created hatred between Hindus and Sikhs. In the south, it has created antagonism between Brahmins and non-Brahmins . . . Unless we wipe out these communal parties, India will go to pieces...
Alamadi's untouchables are treated first, caste Hindus second. Last Sunday, a 35-year-old mason named Sriramulu showed a foul-looking ulcer on his ankle, explained: "First there was an abscess. When it became very painful, I cut it with a penknife. This did not cure it. The village barber told me to apply lime and tobacco. It got worse and I tried a local remedy, covering up the sore with mud. That did not do any good, either." The student put on a sulfa dressing, told Sriramulu he was lucky not to have developed tetanus...
...kans grass. For centuries, India's ryots turned their bullock-drawn, wooden plows against the kans roots, to no avail. With less & less yield from each sowing, the peasant would at last abandon his kans-infested wheatfield, blaming his ill luck on Saturn, considered an evil planet by Hindus. Between them, Saturn and kans choked some 10 million acres of hungry India's wheatlands...
...Hindu pilgrims came for their annual ritual bath at the confluence of the holy rivers Ganges and Jumna. The British authorities, noting that the currents were dangerously fierce that year, forbade the ablutions, and erected a high palisade to keep the pilgrims from the water. Thereupon thousands of Hindus, disciples of Gandhi, squatted before the palisade in the scorching sun, hour after nonviolent hour. Among them was a young, Cambridge-educated Brahman named Jawaharlal Nehru. As he recalls...
...uneasy behaviour of his own sepoy infantrymen. They were badly upset by the rumor (true enough, in fact) that their rifle cartridges were greased with a mixture of beef and hog fat: by the sanctions of religion, the use of beef fat was mortal offense to the Hindus among them, hog fat to the Mohammedans. Fanatics and profiteers, princes and foreign agents were also working overtime to stir up the sepoys. By the time Savage had it all deciphered, it was too late. The mutiny burst across Bengal, and hundreds of men, women & children were slaughtered before the British brought...