Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likely to see again," reported Briton Brailsford. "Bombay obeyed two governments. "To the British government, with all its apparatus of legality and power, there still were loyal the European population, the Indian sepoys, who wear its uniform, a few of the merchant princes, and the older generation of the Moslem minority. "The rest of Bombay's population has transferred its allegiance to one of the British Government's too numerous prisoners: Mahatma Gandhi...
...content with so little, it is still not likely that Britons would grant it. Up to last week the Round Table Conference had not touched the red-hot question of India's status. The Conference had touched, and showed signs of splitting on the question of Hindu-Moslem representation in the new legislature. India's 70,000,000 moslems are "the largest minority in the world." When the Aga Khan, No. i Indian Moslem, left London for Paris (he has a home in Paris) last week, it was rumored and denied that he was not gone...
...Indian Round Table Conference struggled on in London last week, snagged on the question of future representation of Hindu and Moslem minorities in Indian Provincial legislatures, a question which Britons demand be settled before any definite promise of Dominion status is given. Far more important was the appointment of a new Viceroy for India: Free man Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron Willingdon of Ratton, at present Governor General of Canada. Latest previous royal representative to be appointed was the native-born Gover nor General of Australia, Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, shoved into power by Australia's Labor...
...Vagabond is disillusioned. In fact, he's terribly fed up. Here he is, a denizen of these Cantabridgian shores for countless lunar episodes. And looking out tonight on the drizzling raindrops trickling slowly earthward, hindered only by the ecstatic effulgence of the glittering celestial pyrotechnics imbedded in the Moslem minaret effect down Lowell House way, he like the Preacher, is firmly convinced that All is Vanity (note influence of Bible exams.) Why should he, after all these chimerian days of unappreciated amateuristic guidance, waste any more time advertising interesting lectures by interesting professors...
Meantime, disorder continued to bubble down the Indus, whose banks became the scenes of Hindu v. Moslem rioting. At Sukkur casualties were: 13 Hindus killed, 71 wounded; one Moslem killed, 33 wounded. In the revenue districts of Rohri and Ghotki, looting, kidnaping, murder were reported...