Word: jaya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started out by telling the Communists: "The difference between you and me is the difference between a corpse and a living man," Bhave had come a long way. He still has the support of Socialist Leader Jaya Prakash Narayan (the most respected politician in India after Nehru), who had quit politics under the spell of Bhave's earlier idealism. But Narayan himself is deeply disturbed by the failures of redistribution, and now demands that every Indian university student compulsorily devote one year to Bhoodan work. Said Narayan last week: "We must be quick, or those who believe in violence...
...successful had the movement been that the three most popular and influential men in India gathered at Sarvodayapuri. First, there was Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Second, there was Vinoba Bhave himself. Third, there was Nehru's chief political rival, tall (6 ft.) Jaya Prakash Narayan, the founder and leader of India's Socialist Party. A fascinating man about whom the rest of the world knows little. Narayan in his youth was a violent Marxist and anti-British revolutionary, and in his middle age is a man of peace and religion and a forthright antiCommunist...
Zealots' Reproach. Born to a poor peasant 51 years ago in a remote Bihar village, Jaya Prakash Narayan never saw a trolley car until he was 19. When he won a government scholarship, the facts of Indian life crowded in on him all at once. He joined Gandhi's civil disobedience movement. Thirsty for learning but respecting Gandhi's boycott of the British-controlled universities, Narayan went to the U.S. to study. He worked his passage to California, got a job sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science...
...unveiling of the epitaph, Londoners could thank Sir Sri Jaya Chamaraja Wadiyar Bahudar, the wealthy, 30-year-old Maharaja of Mysore. Though he could not be present, the music-loving maharaja had put up a $4,800 guarantee for the performance, so that The Four Last Songs could be recorded for his fabulous (now 20,000 records) personal collection and shipped off to him in Mysore...