Word: lathi
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...crowd surged forward. Somebody yanked the President to safety, but the Minister of Production lost a sandal (and kicked the other off as he fled), while the Minister of Defense was knocked flat. In the pandemonium that followed, Nehru seized a policeman's steel-tipped bamboo lathi and, brandishing it aloft, cried at the crowd: "Stop this uproar...
...Union was the world's most vocal enemy of colonial imperialism. For years he accepted the Communist proposition that imperialism and fascism were the same thing. He completely refuses to admit that Soviet Russia has developed a new imperialism compared to which Britain's regime in India, lathi charges and all, was a riot of freedom. Nehru's great enemy today is yesterday's imperialism. He still seems to believe that Europe's waning colonial powers are a greater danger to Asia than the rising might of Communism...
...policeman whom they passed on their route snatched the flag out of the hands of the man carrying it and without further ado the police officer started hitting him repeatedly with a heavy lathi as hard as he could hit, on every part of his body, including many blows on his head. The man was knocked down, and became unconscious after a short time, but the rain of blows continued, even while he was lying maimed and helpless on the ground...
...have no doubt that lathi attacks [police canings] and shooting will lead us rapidly to our goal. They are training us ill to throw off the fear of Death...
...injured in the hospitals must number several hundred, some seriously hurt from the wounds of lathi blows. No police were touched...