Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your . . . account of "the happy war" in Hyderabad [TIME, Sept. 27], you printed a photograph of victor Chaudhuri which happens to be a photograph of Brigadier Dilip Chaudhuri, Military Attache at the Embassy of India, Washington...
...victor was the Brigadier's elder brother, Major General Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri, O.B.E., commander of an armored division in India. Both the Chaudhuris are armored corps officers, and your confusion was understandable...
Madrasis could scarcely have chosen a better way to honor the Mahatma. "If I were appointed dictator for one hour for all India," Gandhi once wrote, "the first thing I would do would be to close without compensation all liquor shops, destroy all toddy palms*. . . Exceptions would be made for Europeans...
...bonds of orthodox Hinduism are stronger in Madras than anywhere else in India. Abstention from liquor, tobacco and meat are cardinal points in the orthodox Hindu code. Prohibition is spreading from Madras to other parts of Hindu India where orthodoxy is not so strong. Nationwide prohibition has long been one of the main planks of the Congress Party, and the party has pushed it wherever it could. About one-seventh of Travancore, half of the Central Provinces, portions of the United Provinces and the East Punjab are experimenting with liquor bans. Both Bombay and New Delhi have control systems...
Governor General Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of India's leading prohibitionists, also recognizes the difficulty of curing addicts. He recently said: "Those who have got used to spirituous liquor of any kind cannot bear the compulsory privation ordained by state prohibition without a suitable substitute. To replace wine, whiskey or toddy by tea is based on the fallacious notion that the problem is only a matter of selection of fluids...