Word: moslems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accompaniment of shrill Babu squeals from Hindu lawyers and muffled Moslem mutterings, both Indian round table conferences have foundered on the same rock: the problem of proportional Hindu and Moslem representation in Indian provincial legislatures. Since May 14, 218 people have been killed, more than 2,500 seriously injured in riots over this point...
...Everything is relative," cabled the New York Times's Editor Frederick T. Birchall from London last week, "and the British remember what few outsiders realize, that the population of India is more than 350,000,000. Moreover these disturbances between Moslems and Hindus occur annually at the Moslem festival of Moharram (New Year) which as an occasion provocative of rowdyisms is comparable to the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland a generation...
...These disturbances are matters solely between the Moslem and Hindu populations, not affecting the white residents directly, and might conceivably be left to await the exhaustion of the disturbers on the well known principle of the kilkenny cats, were it not for the probability of their getting out of hand altogether...
...Noncooperative Movement, planned secretly to marry a Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, 25-year-old divorced wife of an Irish officer. His son, Zahid Ahmed learned of the plan, rushed to the officiating priest, brandished a knife, threatened to hack off the priest's beard (greatest possible indignity to a Moslem ) if the ceremony was performed. The trembling priest stopped the marriage. That afternoon determined Shaukat Ali got a braver priest, an armed guard, his bride...
...Learned that St. Gandhi's predominantly Hindu Indian National Congress had been joined in opposition to the British Raj last week by the All India Moslem Conference which passed a strong resolution at Lahore threatening "direct action" in the struggle for Indian freedom...