Word: namboodiripad
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...should have been a show place for Asia's Reds. Instead, it seemed to violate almost every promise that a workers' paradise is supposed to offer. Its local Action Committees not only disrupted law and order; they raised havoc with farm production. When Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad tried to impose the Communist line upon Kerala's private schools, he united against himself two usually antagonistic groups, the wealthy, conservative Hindu sect called the Nairs and the state's large Roman Catholic population. Unrest that at first manifested itself in small student demonstrations soon became...
...Resign! Resign!" the pickets had demanded of the Communist government of Kerala, India's only Red-ruled state. Kerala's Communist Chief Minister, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, refused even to consider the demands from local Socialist, Moslem and Congress Party groups. Equally implacably, he continued to enforce a law tightening his government's control of private schools-a measure that had driven Kerala's numerous Roman Catholics and Hindu Nairs to league against him. In the first eight days of Gandhi-style, "nonviolent" demonstrations against the Reds, Namboodiripad's police three times fired into crowds, killed twelve...
...high command of India's governing Congress Party, after first declaring the agitation against the Reds justified, last week accused its own supporters of responsibility for the violence in Kerala. Namboodiripad had been begging for "that good man," Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to visit Kerala to see that nonviolence kept from getting more violent. Nehru accepted last week, and the result was bound to help Namboodiripad...
Kerala's Communist Chief Minister E. M. S. Namboodiripad cried out-as had Khrushchev at the time of the Hungarian revolt-that the strikers and students were being misled by agents provocateurs. The Communist weekly tabloid Blitz haltingly explained away police bru tality in Kerala by claiming that the police were "trained in a tradition of unbridled repression, of which Communists were the main target during the former feudal rule," and had not got over their old ways. The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party issued a 1,200-word resolution which concluded that the shooting down...
...week's end panicky Red Boss Namboodiripad began backing down. His government announced its willingness to withdraw all cases against student agitators, and would let them ride free on the ferryboats pending a "judicial" inquiry into the fare rise. But students and workers were still up in arms against their Communist government...