Word: kanpur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calcutta, where thrifty Bengalis ran wild in 1953 over a ⅓cent rise in streetcar fares, mobs rioted around the post offices when it was discovered that the price of stamps would be rounded off in favor of the government. In industrial Kanpur, bus service was tied up for hours when bus drivers discovered they could not drive and argue about fares at the same time. Mothers fretted that the new coins were too easy for kids to swallow. Even the beggars complained formally that the changeover would cost them profits since passers-by now tossed them a mere naya...
Electioneering in the industrial city of Kanpur, Nehru explained the British and American U.N. vote to condemn India's seizure of Kashmir (TIME, Feb. 4) as simply a reward to Pakistan for its membership in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact. The intent, said Nehru, was "to make India change her independent policy." Then, amidst wild cheers, he cried defiantly: "India will not change her stand on Kashmir one iota under any threat...
...trouble was caused, oddly enough, by an obscure book published in the U.S. 14 years ago. One day last month a rabble-rousing Moslem editor named Ishaq Almi from Kanpur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, chanced to find on a newsstand a cheap Indian reprint of Living Biographies of Religious Leaders by Henry and Dana Lee Thomas. Inside Almi found a foreword by Uttar Pradesh's Governor Kanialal M. Munshi, director of the Bombay firm which published the book in India, praising it as "worthwhile reading." He also found a biography of Mohammed with the following...
...Take Up the Challenge!" PROPHET INSULTED IN GOVERNOR MUNSHl's PUBLICATION, shrieked the headline in Editor Almi's anti-Hindu newspaper Siyaset* "Has the Moslem world become so docile that it cannot take up the challenge?" Almi asked. Kanpur's Moslems, all too eager to blame Hindus for their frustrations and poverty, took up the challenge. Thousands who had not read the book trotted through the streets carrying signs that demanded: "Ban the Religious Leaders Book" and "Down with Governor Munshi." In Aligarh students of the Moslem University snaked through the college grounds with a chant: "Long...