Word: pradesh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clumsy answer to the continuing chorus of free-world outrage over the Hungarian executions-a chorus that included some voices the Soviets evidently had not expected to hear. In Geneva last week the International Labor Organization expelled Communist Hungary's delegates. In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the local Communist branch demanded that the national party publicly condemn the executions, and even Prime Minister Nehru felt obliged to chime in with a "most distressing...
Some of Calcutta's prostitutes have begun marrying the pimps they work for, on the theory that no court could prosecute a husband for bringing "friends" home for dinner. In one Uttar Pradesh area, police faced another difficulty: by custom, a girl can take on as many lovers as she wishes, so long as she lives in her father's house...
...outside the Prime Minister's job, and then come back. That is the problem before me, and it is not a question that can be solved by loud acclamation." He was hoping to leave in a fortnight with his daughter Indira for the cool, piny forests of Uttar Pradesh, there to sleep under the stars, ride ponies, climb mountains and go boating. He had served his country as leader for 10½ years, and felt "flat and stale...
...million-far short of enough to keep pace with India's 5,000,000 yearly births. Power and electricalequipment projects have been dropped. To save foreign exchange, the government has slapped strict import controls on luxury goods. Despite these measures, the huge Rihand hydroelectric dam in Uttar Pradesh stands useless for lack of $8,000,000 to buy electric generators...
...Across northern India, in state after state, black headlines announced creeping famine. The famine areas were still scattered. But in Bihar, more than a million people were down to one meal every two days; farmers scrabbled in the fields for roots, and rioting workers broke into granaries. In Uttar Pradesh, desperate men held up a train; ignoring money and jewels, they carried off five bags of rice...