Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shocked at India's resort to force. To a large extent, Indian nonviolence is a wistful fiction of Western liberals. Since 1947, India has been consistently embroiled in territorial disputes within its own borders. It fought a bloody war over Kashmir with Pakistan that was tacitly approved by Mahatma Gandhi, took "police action'' against Hyderabad when the Nizam of that state tried to prolong its independence, has for years been fighting in Nagaland against hostile Naga forces who desire independence. As Menon put it last week with disarming candor: "We have never abjured violence against any country...
...well as quick, capable and intelligent, Menon has long antagonized the West-and a great many of his own countrymen. As he flew to New York last week to uphold India's case at the U.N., he ran true to form. Asked during a London stopover if Mahatma Gandhi would have approved of the Goan invasion, Menon snapped: "Well, he's not here, is he?" A possible clash between Menon and the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson from the rostrum of the General Assembly was avoided when the two men met in private, thus depriving the Assembly...
...Masterji, as he is called by his followers in the Punjab, was entering the second month of a fast he had sworn to keep unto death, or until the Indian government grants his demand for a Punjabi Suba-a separate, Sikh-dominated state. Few fasts since the days of Mahatma Gandhi's Empire-baiting hunger strikes had caused such a stir in India...
Though criticized by many for "debasing" the almost sacred ritual of the soulcleansing fast as practiced by the Mahatma, Tara Singh knows what he wants: he hopes to force Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to partition about two-thirds of the Punjab's 47,456 square miles into an acU ministrative area independent of Hindu domination. The Punjabi-speaking Sikhs, whose monotheistic religion is an offshoot of the Hindu but without its caste system and swarms of gods and demigods, are the only one of India's 14 major linguistic groups without a separate state...
...teacher at Howard's School of Religion is small, earnest Vice President William Stuart Nelson, 65, a longtime religion professor and onetime friend of Mahatma Gandhi. His 20 students, one-third of them white, attend for good academic reasons but also to learn wiser leadership...