Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brass bands of India blared lustily last week as Moslem League President Mohammed Ali Jinnah toured the great Province of Punjab. A high British official riding Jinnah's train was pleased to note that, at station after station, the musicians played God Save the King. When he mentioned his pleasure to an Indian friend, the friend remarked: "Don't attach any political importance to that. They don't know how to play anything else...
...quarrel with the British people, having more than a touch of their own spunk herself, but she cringes at the pious hypocrisy and old-school stupidity which British rule has clamped over India for 150 years. To her, the British Raj hasn't changed since Kipling left the Punjab. To the Raj, India is still the cornerstone of the Empire and must be held at all costs. The timeworn clichés with which excesses and failings have been shrouded Miss Mitchell attacks with a Bryn-Mawrian vigor implemented with the background of nine years on the secretariat...
...Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), came close to agreement on national government with his old political enemy, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu (Orthodox) Mahasabha. A Government refusal to allow Dr. Mookerjee to interview Gandhi helped to balk a possible agreement. The Moslem premiers of Sind and Punjab and Bengal urged conciliation. A millionaire industrialist and longtime intimate friend of Gandhi, Ghan-shyamdas Birla, said that he believed Gandhi would agree to allow Jinnah to form his own government...
...Parago (TIME, June 15). Coordinating land and air forces, the British dropped parachutists on the edge of the Sind desert. From there they moved west toward the Hurs' jungle stronghold in Makhi Dhand, the "honey swamp." A column of camelry moved in from the north. From the east, Punjab constabulary in assault boats drew the trap tighter. A motorized infantry unit completed boxing the jungle...
There were also signs that the demands of the Moslem League, India's second largest party, for a separate Moslem state might not bulk as large as had seemed likely. One of the country's leading Moslems, Premier of Punjab Sir Sikandar Hyat Khan, told friends that he was resigning from the League's Working Committee and Council. It was believed that he had quarreled with the League's President Mohamed Ali Jinnah. Since Sir Sikandar has long favored coalition with the Congress in forming provincial governments, his resignation might mean that he would work...