Word: pradesh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have converted to Christianity. So far only a few have trickled back to Hinduism. But this tiny trickle is showing signs of growing into a stream. Next month the Mahasabha begins a nationwide drive for reconversion. And last week a six-man committee appointed by the state of Madhya Pradesh charged that Christian mission activity is "part of a uniform world policy to revive Christendom for the re-establishment of Western supremacy, and is not prompted by spiritual motives." Missions in India are, in effect, subversive, according to the report that was broadcast by the All-India Radio. Only Indian...
Congress Party leaders dutifully took these proposals home, blandly proposed the merging of Bengal and Bihar (total pop. 65 million), the merging of Bombay state with huge slices of Madhya Pradesh and Hyderabad (approx. pop. 43 million), the merging of Madras with Mysore and Travancore-Cochin (approx. pop. 55 million). Gasped the opposition parties: a plot to hold power through creating a group of superstates...
...simple, rugged men of mountainous Nepal, the word "muhammad" means great and strong. It seems a fine name to give a faithful dog. To the touchy Moslem minority in the state of Uttar Pradesh near New Delhi, however, the same syllables, no matter what their spelling, mean only one thing: Mohammed, the Prophet. One day last month a Nepalese traveler named Maganlal Shah came to Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and lost his dog, a dog so beloved that he led it with a silver chain. Maganlal advertised in the Lucknow Pioneer: "Lost, from the Hindustan Hotel, one fox breed...
...conductor as they chanted, "Indians and Russians Are Brothers!" Bulganin, tiring in the fast pace of the month-long good-will tour, was happy to play straight man for his buddy: "Oh, that Khrushchev! What a man! What will he do next?" Not Alone. At Bareilly, in Uttar Pradesh, 51 girls dressed in saffron robes and blowing conch shells, sprinkled bushels of rose petals on the travelers, after Soviet secret police first ran hands through the baskets to be sure that only petals were in them. "Fifty-one is the most auspicious number, according to the stars," explained Uttar Pradesh...
...Soviet flags flew everywhere. Street names with an "imperial'' flavor were changed, such as Queensway, which became Road of the People. Forty thousand schoolchildren rehearsed for days their roles as spontaneous greeters. Free special trains from the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh poured peasants in to swell the city crowd; other thousands arrived by foot, by bullock cart or by camel...