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Shops closed, windows were shuttered, and even the bazaars were half deserted in teeming Lucknow (pop. 500,000), capital of Uttar Pradesh province. Students stormed through the streets, set up loudspeakers outside the Council House, bombarded a captive audience of state legislators with fiery exhortations. On their way to another demonstration, a group collided head-on with short-tempered police: brickbats flew, steel-tipped lathis flailed, shots were fired. A passing water carrier was killed; the wounded totaled...
...first name) majored in mathematics, physics and chemistry, rates the title of doctor only on the strength of honorary degrees collected from fawning provincial universities. Sampurnanand dabbles in ayurveda himself, often prescribing ayurvedic remedies for friends. Four years ago his government set up the State Ayurvedic College in Lucknow, dedicated to the proposition that students should learn both the ayurvedic and Western medical systems...
...with himself as chairman, and the commission decided that ayurvedic and Western medicine would not mix. Conclusion: the students would have to drop their Western studies. With that, two ayurveda students began hunger strikes. Responding to this form of protest, made classical for Indians by the example of Gandhi, Lucknow University students heeded the ayurvedics' call for a citywide general strike, got into last week's riots...
...could go over en masse to King George Medical College. But the 87 could not achieve unanimity. Furthermore, King George had no room for them and did not think highly of their qualifications anyway. At week's end East was still locked with West in the streets of Lucknow...
They will work at the King George Medical College of Lucknow University under the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation...