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...Moslems and Hindus have lived side by side in bitter, sometimes bloody enmity ever since Turkish invaders brought Islam to the Indian subcontinent 900 years ago. Last week, in a dramatic repudiation of the ancient animosity, a Moslem was elected for the first time to the presidency of predominantly Hindu India. He is Zakir Husain, 70, a former university chancellor who had been Vice President for five years under President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who did not seek reelection...
...election of a Moslem to India's highest, though largely ceremonial, post would have pleased Jawaharlal Nehru. As India's first Prime Minister, he insisted that religion and politics should be separated in the newly independent country, hoped that India would develop into a secular, Western-style nation rather than a religion-centered Hindu homeland. Fittingly, it was his daughter who engineered the election. Selecting Husain as her candidate, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi argued that other countries would not believe India's claim to ethnic and religious impartiality unless a Moslem could become head of state...
Outnumbered 7 to 1 by Hindus, India's 60 million Moslems live largely outside the country's mainstream. They tend to mix little with Hindus, cluster in separate urban ghettos, have a different written language (Urdu), and enjoy immunities from federal laws so that they, for example, may practice polygamy while other Indians must limit themselves to one wife at a time. Worst of all in Hindu eyes, Moslems are beef eaters, and they outrage their Hindu neighbors by slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider sacred. President Husain, whose own wife still wears a veil and lives in seclusion...
Once called "the harem king" by Nasser, Saud now has an entourage of only 40 members, including the four wives permitted by Moslem law and four concubines. He brought 32 limousines and sports cars with him when he moved from Athens to Egypt. As the price of his entry into Egypt Saud reportedly had to pay $5,000,000 into Nasser's treasury. For months, he and his retinue occupied two floors in Shepheard's Hotel, where he nightly entertained guests in the "Scheherazade Salon." Now Nasser has provided him with a suburban Cairo palace that once belonged...
...ruling Congress Party, and Chief Justice Subba Rao, 59, of the Indian Supreme Court, the candidate of the seven opposition parties in Parliament. The Congress Party's choice of Husain, who is currently India's Vice President, was noteworthy because he would be the first Moslem ever to hold the post in a country that is 84% Hindu. As for the opposition, their aim was to give the government of Indira Gandhi, which is already reeling from a series of defeats, another serious jolt...