Word: jute
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karma and the illusory nature of the created world. But Calcutta's Rameshwar Tantia is a new kind of Hindu; he likes action-especially for his own home region of Marwar, in western Rajasthan. and for all the people in the surrounding desert country. A wealthy businessman (jute, tea, mining), 45-year-old Philanthropist Tantia has arranged new marriages for poor widows, paying the indispensable dowries out of his own pocket. His latest good work: uncovering the Bhil ladies...
...visit to Peking, Nehru often spoke glowingly of "absolute" Socialism as the answer to India's problems; he now refers to Red planners as "unrealistic reactionaries." Last week, still talking Socialism but less emphatically, Nehru announced that India would not now nationalize such private enterprises as the jute and textile industries, that India would welcome capitalists as "junior partners" in future state-run projects...
Fields of Jute. Mohammed Ali was candid. The 1947 partition which created the Moslem state of Pakistan left it an agricultural country. It had vast fields of jute but not a single mill to convert it to burlap. To balance the economy, Pakistan needed industries. Some, the government has built itself. But "the best method of industrialization is through the investment of private venture capital," said Ali. Voicing the creed of a convinced free enterpriser, he declared: "It was the adventurous risk capital of the 19th century that built the fortress of industrial strength the U.S. enjoys today...
...began is unclear; why is plain. The owners of the world's newest, biggest jute mill at Narayanganj, East Pakistan, pampered their imported West Pakistan workers, gave them better jobs and a higher wage scale than the East Pakistan Bengalis. On payday, when the West Paks were lording it over the Bengalis, the atmosphere was tense. According to one version, a West Pakistani fireman reproved a Bengali teastall keeper for allowing the flames to burn too high in his oven. The Bengali took offense, and when a factory watchman intervened, another Bengali stabbed the watchman...
...colony," the United Fronters had cried during the campaign, and they had a point. Smaller in area but much greater in population than the West, East Pakistan has never had anything close to equal treatment by Karachi. It pays heavy sales taxes, income taxes, refugee taxes and duties on jute and other exports, but the national government habitually invests most of the revenue in West Pakistan...