Word: pandits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Africa. After Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts sponsored a request that South-West Africa be incorporated in his South African Union, the Indian delegation, led by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's sister, silver-haired Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, accused South Africa of persecuting its Indian minority. In the Assembly's General (Steering) Committee, Smuts, already harassed by domestic troubles (see FOREIGN NEWS), argued that the Indian minority question was an internal
What was Mohamed Ali Jinnah up to? In a sharp reversal of his policy of last July the lean, leathery Moslem League leader agreed last week to nominate five men to the All-India Congress presided over by his archrival, Pandit Nehru. But he had named third-raters: in New Delhi, prominent Moslems boasted that the League had joined the coalition with the idea of breaking...
...accompanied coalition soon became evident. In an ill-timed visit to North-West Frontier Province, Nehru was met at Peshawar airdrome by 5,000 Moslem sympathizers, armed with spears and guns. His caravan of armored cars was stoned. Tribesmen insulted him by walking out on his speeches. Enraged, the Pandit called them "pitiful pensioners," an allusion to the fact that Britain pays them annual tribal subsidies to be nice. Gleefully, the League's newspaper Dawn editorialized that the Pandit should be made "honorary propaganda secretary of the Moslem League...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of India's new interim Government, wanted more of his countrymen-who used to go mainly to Britain for education-to look to the U.S. As he spoke, there were 300 Indians on the high seas, heading for U.S. universities; 300 others had already enrolled...
Meanwhile, the Indian press directed a spray of propaganda at what the Congress papers call "enemy pockets" and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru calls "these foreign pimples." A Goan Congress Party was functioning underground since no political parties are allowed, civil liberties are nonexistent and even a wedding invitation must be censored. Mohandas K. Gandhi has advised Goa's Governor General Dr. José Ferreira Bossa that the Portuguese would be "wise to come to terms with the inhabitants of Goa." Cried Governor Bossa, servant of a European dictator: "Fascist." Cried the Congress organ, Amrita Bazar Patrika, accustomed to a more...