Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Hyderabad reporter is talking through his puggree when he infers that separate railway tea rooms for Moslems and Hindus are an indication of Moslem domination [TIME, Aug. 3]. There are separate railway tea rooms all over India, and even the hawkers who sell tea on the platform advertise two distinctly different brands-Hindu cha and Moslem...
Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was determined to incorporate the princely state of Hyderabad into India. Hyderabad's Moslem Nizam, whose 15 million Hindu subjects are completely dominated by two million privileged Moslems, insisted on remaining independent (TIME...
Gandhi's death shamed Hindus and Moslems into halting the communal massacres which he had been unable to stop during his life. Jinnah's passing might release a new wave of fanaticism which even he would have opposed. As he died a crisis which might bathe all India in blood was boiling up. When the news of his death reached New Delhi, a Hindu said, "A man can be more dangerous in death than in life." He meant that the inflammatory preachings of Jinnah the agitator would live on, but the occasionally restraining hand of Jinnah the politician...
...startling. In two years, Lake Success has had no noticeable loss of headphones; after the first day of the World Council, 30 sets were missing - 25 of which were later returned. younger churches of Asia and Africa than did earlier ecumenical conferences. Handsome, flashing-eyed Sarah Chakko of India expressed their attitude: "There . . . seems to us to be an undue fear of Communism, especially among the delegates from the U.S. In Asia the people we must reach are people who are asking them selves frankly, 'Is Communism the right way for us?', and we must face its challenge...
...Dekka (or dik) stems from both the Hindustani and Romany (gypsy) languages. Common in the British Army in India since 1890, dikka was brought back to Britain by returning soldiers, gradually passed into cockney speech...