Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-day visit threw Russia's much-advertised Indian trade drive into high gear. In the next three years Russia will not only build a 1,000,000-ton steel mill at Bhilai, Central India, but also supply India with a million tons of steel, almost a third of the country's imports under its second five-year plan. Together with shipments of cement, coal-mining and other machinery, this will build a $300 million to $500 million Russian credit in New Delhi...
Said fast-talking Mikoyan: "We will help you all we can to build up your own great oil industry," and a squad of "Soviet oil experts" stepped forth with figures to show Indian planners what their boss meant. On their side, the Indians agreed to set up a state trading corporation next month for the sole purpose of doing business with Communist countries. To organize Soviet purchases of Indian commodities, Russia's former Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Vasily Sergeev is now installed, with the title of Economic Counselor and a large staff, in the Soviet Union...
...visitors gone, Nehru spoke. The SEATO conference in Karachi "confirmed our worst apprehensions," he told the Indian Parliament, by recommending settlement of the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir. Said he: "A military alliance is backing one country, namely Pakistan, in its dispute with India." He pointed to the sudden rash of skirmishes on the Pakistan border. These show, he said, that Pakistan wants U.S. arms not to deter an aggressor but to settle its disputes with India "from a position of strength." Arming of Pakistan poses "a terrible problem" for India: it will force India to spend money on defense...
...such trusting, non-violent resistance is half of Gandhi's creed, the other half is creative, practical service for immediate problems. In South Africa he set to work cleaning up the Indian community, founded a cooperative educational farm and instructed the Indians in sanitation. Later, when he was doing the same type of service in India, he washed the latrines before a meeting of independence leaders, and drily asked why they should "wait till the advent of swarai (self-rule) for the neccessary drain-cleaning...
...grant given by the Ford Foundation will sponsor Leavell as he organizes a program for training Indian health workers and tries to determine the best way to enlist the cooperation of Indian villagers in community projects...