Word: jains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi fortnight ago, four couples demonstrated a simple solution: Delhi's first cut-rate mass wedding, with no fuss and no dowries at all. Members of the Jain sect, India's fifth biggest religious group (biggest: Hindus), the couples arrived quietly at a Jain temple. Only ostentation: the four brides' traditionally exquisite silk saris, and the bridegrooms' jeweled turbans. Stripped of party gaud, the go-minute wedding ceremony took on added religious significance, from the sound of the Sanskrit scripture chanted by four pandits to the odor of marigold garlands and the glow of incense...
...strains outside are also visible inside the Congress-controlled Parliament itself. This week when Food Minister A. P. Jain tried to gloss over the nation's acute food shortage with bureaucratic doubletalk, he was hooted down by Congress Party M.P.s. When Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari announced sharp increases in taxes on railway fares, gasoline and vegetable oils, the Congress benches moaned, denounced their own new budget as a program designed to "soak the poor." Said one Congressman in Bombay: "It's getting fashionable to be anti-Congress...
...promptly pointed out that the Chinese system was collectives, not cooperatives ; they warned that the individualistic Indian farmer would join a cooperative only if forced, and they saw jeopardy to India's proud position as a democratic alternative to Red China's coerced economy. But Agricultural Minister Jain promptly echoed the boss. "There is no other alternative but cooperative farming!" he cried...
While Food and Agriculture Minister Ajit Prasad Jain insisted valiantly that there was "absolutely no cause for alarm," planes airdropped rice to remote mountain villages. Grain shipments from the U.S. were stepped up to two shiploads every three days, and government officials announced that they hoped to get the U.S. to deliver all 3,500,000 tons of wheat in two years instead of three...
...divided into two classes: "major," permitted outside their convents for such reasons as an air raid, requisition of convent property, voting, surgery, or visits to medical specialists; "minor," permitted outside for these reasons, and also to educate the young. ¶ After eight months of collective bargaining, some 105 Jain priests from 21 temples in Ahmedabad. India won most of their demands (TIME. Nov. 7). The settlement includes 40 days' annual leave with pay (which may be accumulated up to three years), retirement pay to priests with over ten years of service. Temple authorities agreed to hire substitute priests...