Word: orissa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They swarmed about isolated Hindu towns, brandishing the four-foot bamboo bows and bamboo arrows, winged with vulture feathers, which they still use for hunting and war. The townsmen called for help. Patel ordered Orissa Province to take over the administration of Nilgiri. Police armed with rifles marched in from Orissa and scattered the aborigines. Then Patel took a train to Cuttack, capital of Orissa...
...Orissa Province furious mobs stormed police stations. At Eram 25 were killed. In Old Delhi gunfire dispersed 2,000 demonstrators. In Bombay, scene of earlier gas attacks (see cut), lathee charges left blood-covered cobblestones in front of a statue of Queen Victoria. Some Indians in the hinterlands used bows and arrows. Guerrilla gangs attacked railways...