Word: nasik
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...
...anything less than an elephant's jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down by the Hindu Court of Nasik. In effect the court unfrocked the Hindu Pontiff Shankara Racharya and held that all his holy acts are void. One such act was to receive Miss Miller into the Hindu faith as a true convert. Another was to marry her to her ex-Maharaja. A third was to impart a "coconut...