Word: maharasthra
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...Sunday's resignation by Home Minister Shivraj Patil - who was already under pressure over the series of bombings that hit India's cities earlier this year - was followed by that of R.R. Patil, Home Minister of Maharasthra, the state of which Mumbai is the capital. R.R. Patil had been widely denounced for telling reporters on Saturday that the attacks were a "small incident that could happen in big cities." The state's Chief Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, was next in the firing line, lambasted on television and even by fellow politicians for insensitivity after he was seen blithely touring the burned...
...Jehovah but no heathen God. man or devil, commands boundless loyalty from the British tommies in that glamorous, sternly romantic force "His Majesty's army in India." The Times of India, an anti Gandhi, pro British paper published at Bombay, sent to Sholapur respected President Hirachand of the Maharasthra Chamber of Commerce. What he reported the Times guiltily tucked away in small type on an inside page: "As regards the situation in the town, I found it extremely quiet under a terrorism inflicted by indiscriminate shooting . . . for nearly five hours by two patrolling motor lorries running at high speed...
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