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Word: porbandar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before his death, Gandhi had recited a homely Gujarati couplet known in Porbandar (where he was born in 1869). It went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Bleats of a Goat. "Forever" might have been a longer time if it had not been for a scrawny, timid schoolboy then in the northwest India town of Porbandar on the Arabian Sea, 700 miles away. Mohandas Kamarchand Gandhi was eight years old at the time of the Great Durbar at Delhi. He was already sensitive about his British rulers. His schoolmates used to recite a bit of doggerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: End of Forever | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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