Word: malabar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foolish Man!" The Committee of the All-India National Congress, which speaks for most of India, was meeting at the foot of Bombay's Malabar Hill. Hundreds of workers had toiled day & night for a fortnight to erect a pandal (tent) big enough to seat the 300 delegates and 25,000 visitors. Gandhi was absent with a high fever, but his deputy, Jawaharlal Nehru, was conspicuously present. Embittered Moslem League supporters signalized Nehru's arrival by waving black flags, which Congress supporters promptly tore to tatters...