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Patel's closest friend is probably Ghanshyam Das Birla, jute and cotton magnate, who boycotts his own textile mills by wearing khadi (homespun).* Though Birla dotes on Gandhi, he dreams of an industrialized India. (Birla has contracts with Britain's Nuffield for an India-assembled automobile called the Hindustan Ten.) India's liberals and leftists are stridently suspicious of Patel's friendship with Birla and the other big industrialists, but Birla insists that he seeks no Government favors. Says he: "I already have all the money I need...
...Pottery, china clay, hosiery, furniture, boots & shoes, carpets, domestic glassware, jute, linoleum, wool, jewelry & silverware, cutlery, heavy clothing, lace...
Last week the Government of India imposed residential restrictions on white South Africans living in India (about 120 people). The Indian Central Legislative Assembly resolved to apply economic sanctions, thus threatening South Africa with a jute-bag famine...
...Jute...
...Only the wealthiest among them can enjoy it, and the place they like best is Mussoorie, the epitome of all that is fast, flashy and fashionable. The hills are for maharajas, their courts and courtesans, for members of the Viceroy's council, and for kings in cotton and jute...