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Thereupon the 10,000 adopted a resolution advising India's Untouchables-some 60,000,000-to desert Hinduism en masse. Then a mob of Untouchables made a mighty bonfire of the most sacred Hindu books they could find. At Lucknow volunteers were solicited to force entry into Hindu temples, from which Untouchables have been barred since time immemorial. At Barabanki 28,000 Untouchables shouted their support of Dr. Ambedkar, laid plans for an All Indian Untouchable Conference. Millions of leaflets bearing Untouchable Ambedkar's message began fluttering out over India...
...excerpts chosen, a corresponding absence of uniform literary merit calls forth neither surprise nor complaint. Side by side with such brilliant prose as that in which De Quincey illumined the mysteries of laudanum, we find the halting periods of Kavanaugh, whose bravery saved the British garrison at Lucknow. The biblical account of the exodus from Egypt offers strange contrast, both in time and in method of approach, to the war diary of a flighty young aviator. In lesser vein are the colorful tales of spies, condemnations, countermands in the nick of time, secret sleigh journeys on the Baltic ice, wolves...
...roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years a surgeon, oculist, translator, healer and teacher throughout the Orient. Methodist Bishop James Mills Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with a club guarded against intruders. Long afraid of street cars, she died of cholera...
...must to make a man a martyr, Death came last week at Lucknow to 69-year-old Pandit Motilal Nehru, executive genius of the Indian Nationalist party of which Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is the afflatus...
Afflatus Gandhi came two days before to Lucknow with Pandit Motilal Nehru in order that the latter might have x-ray treatment. He died of a lingering illness, aggravated (many of his friends maintain) by repeated British doses of imprisonment...