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...Number of people trampled to death by pilgrims at a Hindu Kumbh festival in Nasik, India...
...Nasik, near Bombay, angry mobs seized grain; police and soldiers were ordered to shoot without warning. At Jhansi a man was trampled to death by a crowd trying to buy grain. In New Delhi India's Food Minister N. R. Sarker said that supplies would be procured from inside and outside the country by Government agencies which would have control over purchase and distribution. Government price ceilings on wheat would be removed to "restore confidence," i.e., make it profitable for hoarders to sell...
Impatient Dr. Ambedkar summoned 10,000 raggle-taggle Untouchables to Nasik near Bombay last autumn, said de liberately: "I had the misfortune of being born with the stigma of Untouchability. But it is not my fault. I will not die a Hindu, for this is in my power. I say to you, abandon Hinduism and adopt any other religion which gives you equality of status and treatment...
This week in Zion's Herald, New England Methodist weekly, appears the first interview with Dr. Ambedkar to be published in the U. S. since he made his Nasik speech. To get it, able Editor Lewis Oliver Hartman went to India, sought out its No. 1 Untouchable, plied him with practical questions. Wrote the editor of Zion's Herald...
...city of Bombay a mob of "Untouchables" (the despised lowest class whose status Mr. Gandhi has tirelessly sought to raise) suddenly decided, last week, to fling themselves on the ground before the holy Nasik Temple and thus obstruct Lordly Brahmans from their worship. All India shuddered at reports that an Untouchable girl had slapped the face of a Brahman priest-far worse than a Negro wench's slapping a white bishop in Dixie. One hundred Untouchables were jailed...