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...Commissioner's remarks contain large elements of truth. Problems that have plagued Mrs. Gandhi's government since her return to office last January continue to elude solution. One of them is communal tension that has led to a series of bloody battles between Hindus and Muslims. In Moradabad, 95 miles east of New Delhi, 133 people have been killed in these clashes since August...
That night, in jail in Moradabad. the wounded sadhu announced that he would soon go into another trance. "The police were wrong in disturbing the peace," he said. "I am the reincarnation of the Lord Ramachandra, and I am here to create a new way of life." Police records bore no evidence of this one way or another, but they did show that up to three years ago, the self-appointed god of Mokhimpur had been a messenger boy in the Uttar Pradesh Department of Public Works who had been fired for misbehavior...
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