Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of Sept. 8, as rioting mounted in Delhi, a crowd of Moslems gathered ominously near a hospital run by a quiet little Hindu physician named N. C. Joshi. Even his Moslem neighbors in the slums of Karol Bagh district had known and liked Dr. Joshi for his work among the poor. This morning, however, the neighbors were armed with knives and spears. Dr. Joshi came out of the hospital. Someone fired a rifle. The good doctor dropped dead with a bullet in the skull...
...India appealed to the Security Council to stop Pakistan's "active aggression" against Kashmir (also known as India's "Happy Valley"). Since Kashmir's Hindu Maharaja Sir Hari Singh had aligned his state with India (TIME, Nov. 11), Moslem fighters had continually raided his country. India charged that Pakistan actively assisted the raiders. India's Premier Nehru formally warned the U.N. that, "in self-defense," India might have to invade Pakistan...
Khan's Lunch. India is spending $500,000 a day to take care of refugees; Pakistan cannot begin to match that. As a result, the Moslem refugees have become a fertile field for leftist agitators against the conservative Jinnah...
...West Punjab, Communist Party-Liner Iftikharud-Din was named Minister in Charge of Refugees, to keep him quiet. But he began urging refugees to demand division of the land, including estates of Moslem landlords, who are among Jinnah's chief backers. One procession of refugees, parading through Lahore, burst into the kitchen of the fat, well-fed Khan of Momdot, Premier of West Punjab and a Jinnah man. Outraged at the contrast between his food and the four thin cha-pattis (wheat pancakes) issued to each of them each day, the demonstrators paraded the Khan's lunch through...
Iftikharud-Din later got himself elected, against Jinnah's opposition, president of the West Punjab section of the Moslem League. This leftist victory, declared a conservative Moslem leader, "has created a serious danger to the Moslem League and . . . Pakistan. There can be no compromise between Islam and any other world philosophy or life system, be it communism, fascism, capitalism or parliamentarianism...