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...weird, eclectic mixture, containing more of Marx than of Gandhi, more of the Bloomsbury agnostic than the Hindu,† more 19th century radicalism than 20th century reality, all held together by arrogance. His feelings toward colonialism can be traced partly to his birthplace, the town of Calicut on the Malabar coast (now the state of Kerala). "I was born where Vasco da Gama made the first landing by a European in India," Menon says. But he is reluctant to talk about his youth. "I have no past, have no journals or diaries. When I die, I want to leave nothing...
Khaki is the Indian farmer's word for the dusty, brown, bare countryside of northern India-a word that imperial British soldiers long ago adopted to describe the sand-drab color of their field uniforms. Last week, from the tea gardens of the Malabar Coast to the millet patches of the high Himalaya, Indians were discussing the government's new third five-year plan (1961-66), in which highest priority is assigned to agriculture...
...election day last week 8,200,000 Keralites went to the polls for a record turnout-85% of those eligible. Wives arose before dawn to line up at the polls ahead of later-stirring husbands and sons. Along the Malabar coast fishermen came in straight from a night on the sea. The non-Communist coalition had swept 94 out of 126 legislative seats. By combining to eliminate three-and four-cornered races, the Congress Party, Praja Socialists and Moslem League, usually at one another's throats, concentrated on the Reds instead. Swept out of office were seven...
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...