Word: kanpur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symptomatic of India's current jitters, which make the slightest cause a provocation of mob violence. In New Delhi last week, when a bus failed to stop for waiting students, the youths chased it down, shooed out the driver and passengers, and set it afire. In Allahabad, Kanpur and Calcutta, mobs stopped and sacked trains and buses - for little better reason. Delhi rioters had not much to fear from the police, for the policemen themselves were busy demonstrating for higher pay outside police headquarters; some cops told students that they would not interfere with their demonstrations so long...