Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cops & Conservatism. Fact is that Desai has never hesitated to ignore Gandhi's injunctions against violence, when necessary, in order to uphold the law. During the bloody rioting between Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs that racked India in the months before and after independence, Desai's skilled and vigorous handling of his police cut casualties immeasurably. In 1954 U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen publicly declared that Desai's Bombay had been selected as the site of a $30 million Standard Vacuum refinery because of its "remarkable stability...
...Then the Sheik was Nehru's honored comrade in the fight against the British, and the powerful leader who could bind largely Moslem Kashmir to the new Indian nation in 1947. Abdullah became the state of Kashmir's first Premier and symbolized the ability of Moslems and Hindus to believe in one another. But as Jawaharlal Nehru, in his hardening determination to hold strategic Kashmir for India, brushed off even U.N. demands for the Kashmir plebiscite he had promised in 1947, Abdullah began talking of making his state independent...
This charming book consists of impressionistic sketches of the sprawling Asian subcontinent done in the pale pastel shades of life rather than its raw primary colors. Filtered through Author (Black Narcissus) Godden's genteel mem-sahib vision, India becomes a setting instead of a place, Hindus and Moslems become figures in a tapestry instead of people, and life moves to the lute strings of poetry instead of the purse strings of necessity. As a free versifier, Author Godden ranks somewhat below another run-of-the-pagoda poet, Emperor Hirohito...
Nehru spoke the simple truth. Out of the bloody communal riots which racked India in August 1947 has emerged a vast secular state in which 320 million Hindus and 40 million Moslems live in relative peace. Against all the predictions of the Blimps, and the warning of Winston Churchill that power was being turned over to "men of straw." Indian democracy has survived to hold the world's two largest free elections; and against the immensity of its problems, even to have survived was triumph...
...claims to include all other beliefs and practices, from crude animism to the most exalted metaphysical speculation. On this vast spiritual menu the individual Hindu can choose the divine nourishment he likes best, and it is all equally nutritious-provided that he swallows it seriously enough. And, suggest the Hindus, since Christian practice (if not Christian theology) is on the Hindu bill of fare, it is wrong for Western evangelists to urge converts to leave Hinduism in order to become Christians...