Word: junagadh
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Thrones & Altars. The fury, now apparently spent, might be renewed to pour in fresh evidence against Kali. Of the 562 princely states, danger lay in three which stood apart from both India and Pakistan. One was little Junagadh, whose dog-loving Moslem Nawab* has announced for Pakistan against the wishes of most of his subjects, who are 80% Hindu. One was Kashmir, most of whose people are Moslem, but opposed to Jinnah's Moslem League. The third was fabulous Hyderabad, whose Nizam had a good chance of maintaining his state's independence. India's Deputy Prime Minister...
...Hindu reformist sect founded by Guru Nanak, a contemporary of Luther. *The Nawab Saheb of Junagadh once threw away 100,000 rupees on the wedding of his prize Airedale bitch, which wore ribbons to the ceremony; vows were read for her and her dog. *In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, a group of British residents of Calcutta presented the temple of Kali with 5,000 rupees as a thank offering for victories over Napoleon. A century later Kali became a symbol of anti-British Indian nationalism, a place to which Mahatma Gandhi succeeded. That this substitution was only temporary...
...threat to peace arose in the heart of Western India. His Highness the Nawab Saheb of Junagadh, a Moslem ruling a predominantly Hindu state, decided to join Pakistan. One of his sub-chiefs, the ruler of Babariawad, applied for admission to India. The Nawab rushed troops to Babariawad. Some 60,000 of his subjects fled to India...