Word: patil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andhra, flew down to campaign there for two days. His old crowd magic failed. On a wishy-washy neutralist platform (he admired "Communism," but opposed its "methods"), he got nowhere. In desperation, the tough Congress Party politicos sent in one of the toughest of their lot, S. K. ("Eskay") Patil, former mayor of Bombay...
...Eskay Patil fired corrupt, naive and inefficient Congress ward bosses. While Nehru spoke softly abroad of Communists, Patil plastered Andhra with lurid pictures of Communist atrocities in Red China (TIME, Jan. 31). He exploited the fall of Malenkov as proof of Communist failure and decay. "Five acres per peasant -we will give you land," the Communists insistently proclaimed. "Give the Reds your vote," Eskay Patil responded, "and you give away your freedom...
Faced with repeated near-riots, Major General Shankar Pandurang Patil Thorat, commander of the 5,000-man Indian guard force, hastily cabled New Delhi for reinforcements. He ordered the Communists to stay at least 100 yards away from the barbed wire. "Just a little more than a stone's throw," smiled an officer...