Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace promises which the political saint had exacted from Indian leaders through his fast (TIME, Jan. 26) had brought at least temporary calm. There were noisy demonstrations in New Delhi-but they were for peace. Moslems moved unmolested into some areas from which rioting had driven them. On the third day after his fast, though weak, the Mahatma disdained to be carried to his daily prayer meeting; he walked, unaided, on his spindly legs. His audience of about 1,000 strained to hear as he prayed for Hindu-Moslem unity. A booming thud interrupted him. A hundred yards away...
Deborah Kerr makes an entirely credible sister, devoid of the sentimentality that usually befouls religious characters in the movies. David Farrar and Flora Robson play with skill and vitality, while Jean Simmons, the Estella of "Great Expectations," is magnificent as a sensuous Indian girl. Technicolor is made the most of, with some splendid photographic effects, and the only serious fault to be found is that the pace is sometimes too slow. It is a great pity that a picture so excellent in execution and so religious in theme should be chopped up by the censors...
Like many another Indian, Gandhi felt that a new cycle of mass riots was approaching. But his once loyal disciples, distracted by new political power, paid less & less attention to his struggle for peace...
...Indian government, Patel led the "war party" which insisted on a "get-tough" policy toward Pakistan. He seemed inclined also to crack down on Moslems within India: "Mere declarations of loyalty to the Indian Union will not help Moslems at this critical juncture," said Patel. Later he became bolder, and darkly hinted at open war with Pakistan. Most Sikhs and many Hindus applauded Patel. Obliquely, Gandhi observed that Patel had "thorns on his tongue." Without warning, one day last week the Mahatma began to fast...
Their purpose was noble; they themselves, with few exceptions, were unassuming. They drifted into Philadelphia one or two at a time, put up at the Indian Queen Hotel, got to the State House at 10 or 11 in the morning, and sat around in the famous room with its high windows, waiting for the other delegates. They arrived so slowly that the opening hour was changed from 11 to 1 p.m. On May 25, 1787, almost two weeks after the first delegates assembled, the Constitutional Convention held its first official session...