Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ceremonies marking the emergence of India as an independent dominion will be observed at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon at Phillips Brooks House by the Hindusthan Students' Association of Greater Boston, secretary Amarjit Singh, 2G announced yesterday...
Hoisting of the new national banner, communal singing of India's new national anthem, and a recitation of the citizen's pledge of acceptance will highlight a program which also includes three speeches...
...church had no energy or funds to spend for missions; now it supports one missionary each in China, India and England. But of all First Community's exuberant statistics, none is more meaningful than the support it gets from the jukebox-and-Coca-Cola set. At nearby Upper Arlington High School 90% of the seniors and 96% of the student body as a whole are active members of the church...
...have won so big a reputation on so small a body of work as Edward Morgan Forster (rhymes with divorced-her). Often described as England's foremost living novelist, he hasn't written a novel since A Passage to India (1924). The four other novels he wrote earlier, all fairly short ones, came in a feverish burst of activity-for him-between 1905 and 1910. The rest of his fiction includes only a dozen short stories, written before World War I and long out of print in the U.S. They have now been collected in one volume...
From his first morning's awakening in New Delhi to breathe "an air that was like some noble nourishment, distilled to rarity," Taylor determined to cultivate his awareness of India. He diagnosed the "sahib sickness" of British colonials and U.S. officers alike as "spiritual avitaminosis" (vitamin deficiency), caused by a refusal to be open-minded toward India's beauties. Taylor felt that it would be fruitful for him-hence for Britain and the U.S.-to look on Indian life as a "loyal cultural opposition" in ordering the world of the future...