Word: nagpur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bombay, India, R. T. Sahni, divisional superintendent of the Central Railway System, said that one reason why trains on the Nagpur division are so frequently behind schedule is that approximately 180 babies are born in them each year...
Born. To Marlon Brando, 34, cinemactor, and India-born Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 23, who denies strong evidence that she was little Joanie O'Callaghan when her father, an Irish employee of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, enrolled her in school in Darjeeling: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Christian...
...Terribly Hindu." In the current issue of Religion in Life, David G. Moses, Christian principal of Hislop College at Nagpur and a practiced interpreter between East and West, credits the British with opening "the whole wealth of Western inductive science and knowledge of Western political institutions to the wondering gaze and avid hunger of the Indian student." At the same time, the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism's most flagrant corruptions-caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow's suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband) and infanticide...
Last week, in the state capital of Nagpur, Politician Shukla brought the campaign to a climax. Behind a crowd-catching corps of dancing drummers and yellow-painted naked men wearing tails to look like tigers, a horde of Hindus danced past the twin-spired Anglican cathedral. They moved on to the great statue of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god, round whose pachydermous head flared a halo of electric lights. Meanwhile, people crowded the hall of the legislative assembly to watch Christians trying to answer such needling questions as: "If a mission doctor prays to the Christian God before performing...
...denominational missions has, in my opinion, come to an end," said Dr. David Gnanapragasam Moses, principal of Hislop College at Nagpur, India, and Henry W. Luce visiting professor of world Christianity at New York's Union Theological Seminary. By showing Asians the bitter divisions within Western Christendom, denominational missions "sterilized the possibility of the genuine Christian community arising [and] sowed the seeds of division . . . All the travail that we now have to unite the churches is [the] result...