Word: prabhudatt
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Fighting the Right. Nehru personally trounced Prabhudatt Brachmachari, a Hindu holy man vowed to silence, who had challenged the Prime Minister in his home district (TIME, Jan. 28). Nehru's Congress Party was assured of at least 43% of the total vote. It won some 375 seats in the House of the People and majorities or near-majorities in at least 23 of 25 state legislatures...
Last week he got distressing news. His only opponent in Allahabad, 52-year-old Prabhudatt Brahmachari, who wears a luxuriant grey beard, orange-and red-rimmed spectacles, a saffron robe and a long white loincloth, had been quietly building up the vote. Quietly was the word for it: he had done it without uttering a single sound, except an occasional loud laugh...
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