Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep in a spectacularly beautiful gorge of the River Jhelum last week a 25-pounder boomed. From the distance came an answering roar, and an Indian commander pointed to the top of a hill. "Our men are up there," he said. "Pakistan's army holds the hills beyond...
...soldiers of Britain's youngest dominions shot it out with each other for the favors of the beautiful, fabled State of Kashmir lying between them. Neither side was willing to admit that it was war. To a U.N. commission on hand seeking for a way to peace, the Indian government explained over & over again that Kashmir had voluntarily acceded to India, that India's soldiers were there only to clear Kashmir's soil of all enemies so that her 3,000,000 independent citizens could vote peaceably on their own future...
Azad Kashmir. In mountain passes of the north and east the Indian army engaged fierce Waziris, Afridis and Kashmiri tribesmen from areas where Kashmir blends with the North West Frontier Province in rugged mountain wasteland. There, in remote Gilgit, where the Indian subcontinent touches Soviet Russia, is quartered a government called Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir) headed by an ambitious onetime petty civil servant named Sirdar Ibrahim...
...engage Ibrahim's men, Indian soldiers seasoned in the steaming jungles of Burma slogged up snowy mountainsides. Bombers took their missiles over Nanga Parbat, fifth highest mountain in the world. At the extreme east end of the front, at Ladak, a strange land where the people are Buddhists and feel more affinity to Tibet than Kashmir, an Indian division was flown in by planes that climbed 20,000 feet over the Himalayas...
...They Drop Over." In the Jhelum valley, to the west, last week an Indian officer showed TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar a map on which numbers of regular Pakistan units were labeled in. Lubar asked what was the source of his information. "Partly from prisoners," he answered. "Also they drop over and see us sometimes. The Pakistan battalion commander here and the Indian battalion commander here are both former platoon commanders of mine...