Word: hindy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pursue her populist policies, which so far have not gone very far toward solving India's multitudinous problems. Squared off against Indira is one of the oddest political alliances ever hatched. The four-party coalition, formed in January, consists of the right-wing, free-enterprise Swatantra Party; the Hindi-speaking, anti-Moslem Jana Sangh; the Opposition Congress Party, a split-off from Indira's Congress Party; and the Samyukta Socialist Party (not to be confused with the older Praja Socialist Party). Asked why hejoined so bizarre a grouping, Swatantra Boss M.R. ("Mi-noo") Masani replied by quoting...
...Indira was acutely aware of the efforts being made by three opposition parties to form a conservative alliance. These include the right wing of the old Congress Party, the free-enterprising pro-Western Swatantra, and the fast-growing Jana Sangh, which has a strong rural base in the northern Hindi-speaking states. Often accused of pro-Hindu chauvinism, the anti-Moslem Jana Sangh is particularly angry with Indira for having cooperated with the local branch of the Moslem League in last year's Kerala state elections. Mrs. Gandhi, in turn, has denounced the Jana Sangh's policies...
WHEN India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there were 554 princely states, each ruled by a maharajah (Hindi for great ruler) or a lower-ranking rajah. While the peasants lived in abject poverty, the princes had grown rich on land taxes and the sale of mineral rights. They indulged in lavish whims-concubines, opulent palaces, bejeweled elephants, retinues of servants, strings of polo ponies, sumptuous celebrations. The Nizam of Hyderabad, who was the richest of all with wealth estimated at $2 billion, collected mountains of pearls. To celebrate his 39th birthday, the Gaekwar of Baroda was saluted...
...group of reporters near his office on the 38th floor of the United Nations Secretariat building in Manhattan. Pelted with questions about the Arab-Israeli discussions that he has been summoned to conduct on behalf of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, the Swedish diplomat recited an aphorism in Hindi, one of a dozen languages that he knows. Then he translated it: "All is all right." With customary caution, Jarring immediately added, "I mean that only personally...
...days before the Sant's scheduled bonfire, she announced that Chandigarh would go to the Sikhs; in compensation, the Hindu state would be given $26 million for a new capital, and in addition would be ceded a part of the Punjab's fertile Fazilka precinct containing 114 Hindi-speaking villages...