Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these new cotton territories face serious difficulties. In the upper African districts, irrigation is the problem. In Brazil, the cotton area is in the interior valleys where transportation is poor. In Argentina, the chief drawbacks are labor shortage, insect pests and high freight rates. Extensive areas in Sind and Punjab (India) will require irrigation before cotton can be grown there sucessfully...
Malhotra DesRaj '23, of Punjab, India, President of the Hindu Students Association, as the result of a recent lecture given before that body on Hindu Art, has collected from all parts of India specimens which he has placed on exhibition at a store at 1288 Massachusetts Avenue. Admission to the exhibition, which started last week and will continue all through the week, is free to the public...
...Michael O'Dwyer was Governor of the Punjab during the Amritsar riots...
...adoption of the present diarchial form of government in India. This report, however, was not enough to convince many Englishmen of the necessity for a change until the condition of the country was brought home to them with unpleasant force by the outbreaks in the Punjab...