Word: orissa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sanskrit word for fibre is jhat. In the Indian province of Orissa a tall, reedlike plant called jhut has long been cultivated for its fibre, which is used in making sackcloth and twine. But the best place in India for jute growing is the neighboring province of Bengal, whose alluvial plains between the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers produce at least 85% of the world's crop. Last week while U. S. farmers were harvesting a bumper crop with combines (see p. 15), Bengali farmers with sickles were beginning to cut more than 2,000,000 acres of jute. When...
...Mother of Parliaments enacted in London a new Constitution for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). The most recent key event was for the Indian National Congress Party, long headed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, to win elections giving it a majority in the legislatures of Bombay Presidency, Madras, Bihar and Orissa, the Central Provinces and the United Provinces (TIME, March 8). Together these make up three quarters of the population of British India. Taking returns from all provinces into account, the Party of Gandhi won a nation-wide majority as impressive as that won last autumn by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.* This...