Word: joshi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patel himself had been less patient than Prakasam. He had struck at Communist publicists elsewhere in India without waiting for open revolt (TIME, Jan. 27). However, many Red leaders, including Party Boss Puran Chandra Joshi, were still at large, and the Communists were still a menacing factor in the political life of India. Before the war their influence had been negligible...
...Ministry denied that it had ordered the raids, but few familiar with the workings of the Criminal Intelligence Department believed that it was coincidence that brought police simultaneously to Red headquarters in Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Lucknow and seven other cities. India's Communist leader, smart, tousled Puran Chandra Joshi, followed the Moscow line by blaming the British for the raids...
...Joshi's Program. Monocled Jinnah, with his Bond Street clothes, his rich palace at Bombay and his Moslem belief in violence, has gained power through reviving the Moslems' vanished pride in their onetime imperial greatness and through brilliantly, if not always logically, espousing Moslem grievances against the Hindus...
...makeshift remedies were those proposed by a third Indian leader, taut, be spectacled Puran Chandra Joshi, Secretary of the Indian Communist Party. Last week his party met in Bombay, with as much fiery speechmaking as Jinnah's Moslem League had displayed. "Cultural squads" reworded ageless folk tunes into and-Japanese songs. The Bombay sweeper-women gave a specialty dance. Characteristically Indian was one Red chant set to an old devotional tune: "Do not think that revolution means thirst for blood; it means love for a higher life...
...banned from 1934 to July 23, 1942) to challenge the Hindu Mahasabha as India's third strongest political party. Their internal program is for land division, higher wages, a breaking down of all restrictions of caste, creed and custom. Externally their policy is basically anti-imperialist, but to Joshi, trading British imperialism for Japanese slavery is foolish. The average age of party members is 27. Claimed membership: 16,000 regular party members, 400,000 peasant "supporters," 39,000 students...