Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rioting between Hindus and Moslems had broken out again in Bengal. There was more burning and looting than killing, but the pattern was frighteningly like that of 1946. As in 1946, some of the worst scenes took place in filthy, plague-ridden Calcutta...
Half a Million Hindus. From a population of some 2,000,000 before partition, Calcutta had in two years become packed with about 7,000,000 people. Biggest addition: the Hindu refugees from Eastern Pakistan, who last week were still crowding in. Five thousand Hindus were camped in Calcutta's Sealdah railroad station, ragged, stupefied and sick. In spite of efforts of relief workers there were 70 new cases of cholera, typhoid and dysentery every day. A volunteer made the rounds taking down depositions from refugees. One emaciated little man dictated haltingly: "My name is Harun Donath...
Trains brought 5,000 Hindus daily to Calcutta. On foot, other thousands trudged from the east. In little more than a month, half a million Hindus had come to West Bengal and most of them to teeming Calcutta...
Meanwhile, terrified Moslems had themselves become refugees, huddled together in camps while they waited for a chance to make their way to East Pakistan. One camp, on the Park Circus recreation area in central Calcutta, held more than 10,000 Moslems. Every now & then a group of Hindus slipped up to the camp, threw bombs into the refugee area...
...Velikovsky does not derive much of his theory from geological evidence. He depends mostly upon the mythologies of the world's ancient and not-so-ancient peoples, quoting Hindus, Greeks, Babylonians, Peruvians, Aztecs, Mayas, Chinese and Polynesians. None of these sources speak clearly to back him up. No myth, for instance, describes an object nearly as big as the earth which came close enough to graze it. The myths speak cryptically, and Dr. Velikovsky thinks that that is probably because folks were gagged by "collective amnesia...