Word: joshi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Qureshi, charged the prosecution, was a Moslem League hothead who not only led the mob outside Dr. Joshi's hospital, but fired the shot which killed the Hindu doctor. Furthermore, the prosecution produced six witnesses to prove it. All of them were Hindu or Sikh...
...morning of Sept. 8, as rioting mounted in Delhi, a crowd of Moslems gathered ominously near a hospital run by a quiet little Hindu physician named N. C. Joshi. Even his Moslem neighbors in the slums of Karol Bagh district had known and liked Dr. Joshi for his work among the poor. This morning, however, the neighbors were armed with knives and spears. Dr. Joshi came out of the hospital. Someone fired a rifle. The good doctor dropped dead with a bullet in the skull...
Nothing more might have been heard of Dr. Joshi's death if he had not been a friend of Mohandas Gandhi; when he expressed his outrage, Indian police set forth to track down the murderer. Ten days later they arrested Dr. Joshi's neighbor, Moslem Dr. Abdul Qureshi...
...wrestled, India and Indian politics changed along the road. The Indian National Congress, which claimed to represent Indians of every religious community, finally had to admit that Mohamed Ali Jinnah spoke for the Moslems. Left-wing groups left the Congress, Communists led by Puran Chandra Joshi threatened the placid order of the agricultural, home-industrial India which Gandhi strove for. The Congress leadership (since 1941 Gandhi has ruled only from the sidelines) passed more & more to a group of well-to-do conservatives bossed by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel...
...Soviet Union which might, like Britain before it, exploit the weakness of a divided India to win hegemony. Already Puran Chandra Jpshi, India's grinning Communist leader,' and other Russian agents had a small (50,000), growing, tightly organized machine within India. If dissension grew in India, Joshi's grin (and Russia's chance) would grow with...