Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Founded in 1879 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, a village in the Punjab, who claimed to be the promised Mahdi (Leader of the Faithful) as well as the Messiah...
Times are still difficult in the Far East and Pacific areas and TLI is accustomed to receiving curt communications like the one from longtime Subscriber C. L. Davar, of Pach-marhi, Central India, which began: "Re: change of address due to Punjab massacre . . ." For many of our subscribers in China, a change of address is now out of the question and communications like the following have been coming to us: "Unfortunately, the Communists are approaching my native city (Wuchang), and an iron curtain will soon be tightly drawn between us and the West. American publications, especially, will be prohibited...
Whether or not modern technology can turn areas that geography, biology, or human prejudice has kept backward into prosperous lands was the debate topic for a sextet of men familiar with such underdeveloped regions as the Belgian Congo, and the Punjab...
...Hindu India where orthodoxy is not so strong. Nationwide prohibition has long been one of the main planks of the Congress Party, and the party has pushed it wherever it could. About one-seventh of Travancore, half of the Central Provinces, portions of the United Provinces and the East Punjab are experimenting with liquor bans. Both Bombay and New Delhi have control systems...
Moslems are also forbidden by their religion to drink alcohol. Last week the West Punjab provincial government decreed complete prohibition for all Moslems. Non-Moslems can be exempted by applying for a special drinking permit costing 5 rupees a year. A loophole in the law makes the drinking permits available to those Moslems who can present doctors' certificates saying that they are "alcohol addicts...