Word: pathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pathan. and scion of Moslem notables in the North-West Frontier Province, Ghaffar Khan tramped the roads, spreading the gospel of satyagraha (passive resistance). His followers were called "Red Shirts" because they wore garments dyed with a cheap red coloring from red bricks...
...Foreign Correspondent Crane, there were more important things to talk about than love on that autumn day in 1947. Civil war raged through India's Kashmir, and swept over the cream-colored British Catholic mission where he had arrived a few days before, looking for a story. Bloodthirsty Pathan tribesmen had swarmed down from the north, seized the mission and taken their revenge by slaughtering some of the Hindu refugees hiding there...