Word: malabar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Failing Magic. The heart of the difficulty was that independence had unleashed popular desires that outran the nation's capabilities. And out of the frustration came a steady pressure for the quicker techniques of totalitarianism. Kerala State on the Malabar Coast has already elected a Communist administration; a Communist-Socialist coalition rules the city of Bombay. Fortnight ago, faced with a nationwide strike of postal and telegraph workers that might spread to 400,000 government employees, Nehru himself rushed through Parliament a bill outlawing strikes in "essential industries...
...Punjab, one Congress candidate lost a state assembly seat to his estranged wife, who cornered the female vote with detailed accounts of her opponent's shortcomings as a husband. The only serious threat to Congress dominance, however, developed in the impoverished, densely populated Malabar Coast state of Kerala, where the Communists won a plurality in the state assembly. So long as the Reds did not win an absolute majority of the 126 assembly seats, Nehru could-and almost certainly would-keep them out of the state government by invoking "President's rule," i.e., appointment of a state governor...
Communists yesterday won control of an Indian state legislature for the first time. It was the hardest jolt to Prime Minister Nehru's ruling Congress party since the country became independent. The Reds scored their victory in Kerala, a new state established last fall on the tropical Malabar coast of southern India. Kerala's 13 1/2 million people are crammed 800 to the square mile, and unemployment is a perennial problem...
...Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, in South India (membership 250,000), claims the Apostle Thomas as its founder...
...conquest, portrays newly freed India through the mind of Indira ("Baba") Goray, daughter (as is Novelist Rau) of a rich and respected Indian politician. The story transpires in Bombay, in the hill country of the north, and among the elaborate Victorian palaces of the Indian rich on the Malabar Hill. Baba and her sophisticated schoolgirl friend turn their wary eyes on the fantastic events in which, trancelike, the Indians accepted the Nehru raj from Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British viceroy. Baba teeters girlishly between the superstitious past (as a child she had retched over a dead fish...