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Word: jathedar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jathedar Sohan Singh: to wash dishes for a week in the communal kitchen; Jathedar Udham Singh and Ishar Singh Mujhail: to surrender a week's salary as delegates to the Punjab legislative assembly; Master Tara Singh: to stand in the middle of the Amritsar Temple for seven days reading the Granth Sahib, the Sikh holy book, which has 29,480 rhymed homilies. Sample: "At the throne of God, grace is obtained by two things: open confession and reparation for wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Attention, Mr. Slaughter | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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