Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Yoga-believers from Arizona, husky, 20-year-old ex-Lawyer Theos Bernard is the first white man to become a Tibetan Lama. In 1936 he took a Master's degree in philosophy at Columbia University (specializing in Buddhism), spent the next 16 months in India and Tibet. He was allowed to enter...
Last week a remarkable collection of automobiles rolled into New Delhi, India...
Scattered throughout India are 562 native states, which range all the way from Hyderabad, with the area of England and Scotland together, a population of 14,436,148 and an annual revenue of about $30,000,000, down to an estate no bigger than an elephant stockade, with 32 souls and not enough annual income to buy silk for a single turban. But by & large, the states' incomes are fabulous. An astounding proportion goes to the native rulers. One rupee in every five of Kashmir's revenue goes to its maharaja (compared with approximately one pound...
...child in India, Hostess Hughes-Hallett was taught by her father, a British Army officer, to love all animals and especially those that other people despised. When she was three, Father Holmes-Tidy got her used to snakes by keeping a 14-foot python as a house pet. Live snakes are not always available to city dwellers, and when the Hughes-Halletts first moved to Detroit, Mrs. Hughes-Hallett had a hard time getting enough pets. She solved the problem by calling up the Police Department and requesting that any snakes they found be turned over to her. Commented indulgent...
...Charlotte, N.C., heading South, was a team composed of comely Miss Ila Sircar, associate general secretary of the Student Christian Movement in India; Dr. P. C. Hsu, University of Shanghai professor; Dr. Gonzalo Baez Camargo, Mexican Methodist leader. In Detroit, heading West, were Miss Minnie Soga, Bantu social worker in South Africa; Dr. Rajah Bhushinam Manikam, Lutheran secretary of India's National Christian Council; Dr. Hachiro Yuasa, "Christian Pacifist," onetime president of Japan's Doshisha University...