Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian and Hyderabad governments exchanged the customary notes. Nehru demanded that the Nizam disband his private Moslem army of Razakars, headed by Kasim Razvi. The Nizam refused. Nehru announced: "We will march!" and warned that any blood shed would be on the Nizam's head. The Nizam said it would be on Nehru's head...
...Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was determined to incorporate the princely state of Hyderabad into India. Hyderabad's Moslem Nizam, whose 15 million Hindu subjects are completely dominated by two million privileged Moslems, insisted on remaining independent (TIME...
...last week the Indian army marched into Hyderabad. Tanks and armored cars spearheaded the marching columns over the hard, flat ground. Squadrons of the Indian air force provided air cover. The early stages of the invasion seemed to be going according to plan. There was little resistance either from the regular Hyderabad army or from Kasim Razvi and his Moslem fanatics. Instead, Hyderabad rushed a request to the United Nations Security Council to consider the dispute. For good measure, Hyderabad asked to submit the case to the International Court of Justice...
...ancient Sioux held an oldtimers' reunion at South Dakota's Custer State Park. They were the last of the Indian band which had massacred Lieut. Colonel George A. Custer and 250 troopers of the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Now the buffalo were gone and the white man had taken their Black Hills. Said one irascible old brave: "I wish my people were strong enough to get them back...
...Marijuana, a drug made from Indian hemp, is sometimes grown furtively on vacant city lots. Medical research has been unable to find positive evidence that it is habit-forming, but it has its constant users. It is said to produce a state of exhilaration in which time seems to move slowly...