Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India in the midst of a revolution, social, political, and industrial, was the picture of his native country as described by Dhan Gopal Mukerji to a CRIMSON reporter last night. Mukerji is the author of several books depicting Indian life and philosophy, outstanding of which are "Caste and Outcast" and "A Son of Mother India Answers...
...last war brought about a number of changes, for in that period India took a long stride towards becoming an industrial nation, moving from a position as the twentieth industrial country in the world to the eighth largest, and this industrial change brought with it, as well as the changes in the social status, a new desire on the part of the people of India for political freedom so that they might control their own destinies...
...nobly to create a work able plan which will bring more autonomous sovereignty and wider democracy to 318,940,000 backward, caste-divided Indians, now split among themselves upon an infinitude of religious and political issues. If these seven men can devise a plan which will content both India and Britain they will have wrought like titans, heroes, messiahs. Said Sir John Simon, last week. "This is the biggest job I know. Now I will have...
Near the storied river Ganges, at flourishing Allahabad, Central India, stands a jail. Last week 100 Indians, incarcerated at hard labor, revolted, pinioned their native overseer and vengefully cut off his nose. Then, arming themselves with edged tools, they climbed to the roof of the jail and bade fanatical defiance to the British Empire as personified by additional warders who appeared armed with revolvers, dragging a machine...
...mountains of Turkestan. Thence he would pass by caravan over more mountains and steppes to remote Vyernyi, topping the uplands of Semirechensk, and distant some 150 miles from the Chinese frontier, 1,800 miles as the crow flies from Moscow, and 500 miles from the border of India. Thus ringed by remoteness, Lev Davidovich Trotsky will yet have the companionship of his wife and son, both voluntary sharers...