Word: pandits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lots of Harmony. Last week the Indian girl, now a handsome 47-year-old diplomat, was still finding her destiny in dangerous company. When Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of India's Premier Nehru, and the new Dominion's first Ambassador to Soviet Russia, stepped out of a gleaming Air India DC-3 at Moscow's Vnukovo airport early last month, she got a big reception. Amid the welcoming crowd, portly K. A. Kochetkov, acting chief of protocol, presented her with flowers and showed her unctuously into a new Zis sedan...
Netherlands and Indonesian troops both claimed successes yesterday, while in New Delhi Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, vice-president of the Indian interim government, announced that his country would bring the Javan hostilities to the attention of the United Nations today...
...arson had killed nearly 15,000* Indians (according to low Government estimates), had all but persuaded Britons and Congress leaders that Moslems and Hindus could not cooperate in a unified nation. Almost everybody but Gandhi now accepts the principle of Pakistan (a separate Moslem state or states). Even Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has said: "The Moslem League can have Pakistan if they wish to have it." But he served notice that if India was going to split along communal lines, Congress would not let Jinnah have non-Moslem territories which he claims. "If parts of Punjab and Bengal want to separate...
India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who promoted the show and missed no cue to promote India as the natural leader of the East, pitched the tone. Said he: "The countries of Asia can no longer be used as pawns by others...
...urgent request from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, vice-president of the interim-government, summoned him to India in early January. Successor of President Conant as head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Profesor Shapley represented the organization at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Indian Science Congress...