Word: lathi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims poured into the 15-square-mile site on special trains, buses, bullock carts, bicycles and on foot, the old and infirm often carried on younger men's backs. The crowd found one-way traffic patterns, with 200 mounted police and 3,000 other lathi-wielding cops to enforce them. On every road there were medical teams to inoculate them against cholera (though many needle-shy peasants managed to slip past). The festival area itself was sectioned off like the Chicago stockyards with bamboo fencing to keep crowds from clotting. Posted in special watchtowers, police...