Word: kerala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hydrogen Bombs (which nonetheless lost considerable support with the advent of Red China as a nuclear power). Though India's 160,000-member Communist Party is split down the middle, the pro-Chinese wing holds the psychological whip hand, having won 40 seats in this year's Kerala state election to only three for the Muscovite wing. The victory was doubly impressive, since there has been virulent anti-Chinese feeling in India since the 1962 invasion...
...more deep-rooted than Canada's, has nonetheless raced to complete its own atomic facilities-and has a more advanced nuclear technology than China, despite the substantial Soviet assistance that Peking received in the 1950s. India refines its own reactor fuel from vast reserves of thorium in Kerala, Madras and Bihar, thus is not subject to international controls over its allotment. It is also the first non-nuclear power to have a diffusion plant actually producing weapons-grade fissionable material, at Trombay, near Bombay. The government of Lal Bahadur Shastri has made clear that it intends to retain...
...Kerala was an especially difficult testing ground. The Malayalam-speaking inhabitants had attacked post offices and disrupted rail services over the Hindi question. Though the most Christian state in India and the one with the highest literacy rate, Kerala is desperately poor and has a radical tradition. Back in 1957 the Communists captured the state government, ruling for 27 chaotic months until removed from of fice by a presidential decree...
...ballots were counted last week, the fears proved justified. With 133 seats at stake, the pro-Peking Communists captured 58 to the Congress Party's 36. A dissident group called the Kerala Congress Party came third with 25, while the pro-Moscow Communists were badly beaten, taking only three of the 78 seats they contested...
...their winning candidates are already in jail, having been imprisoned without trial since last December under an emergency decree issued at the time of Red China's invasion of India's Himalayan border. Shastri may again arrange for an appointed governor to rule Kerala. If he does, Kerala's Red boss, E.M.S. Nam-boodiripad, has said he will set off statewide demonstrations against the government...