Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountaineering exceptions. At the turn of the century Japanese army officers were poling around the rugged terrain of Korea and Manchuria, even Siberia, picking up information for their military maps. In 1941, with war just ahead, the Japanese had a large expedition climbing the Himalayas of India's Punjab, hunting hardy wild mountain barley for the horses and men of their cavalry, and at home the sport of mountaineering kept abreast of political and military needs. The Japanese alps crawled with amateur climbers. Biggest goal of civilian climbers has always been to scale a major Himalayan peak...
...paralyzed Calcutta with a strike of 2,000,000 workers to demand a bigger chunk of Bihar State for West Bengal. Across India, Sikhs rioted in Amritsar, and a Sikh leader told a cheering audience: "If Sikh demands are not met, the Bombay drama may be repeated in the Punjab...
...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...
...reduce India's 29 states to 16, all of them with a full measure of local government: four northern Hindustani-speaking states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan), two southern Telegu-speaking states (Andhra, Hyderabad), one state each for eight other languages, and two bilingual states (Punjab, Bombay). New Delhi fears harsh reaction to any changes, particularly in Punjab, with its proud Sikhs. Reduced to a minority (32%) among Hindi-speakers in an enlarged Punjab, the Punjabi-speaking Sikhs may turn their resentment into violence when the map-changers go to work...
...Paris, got a brusque turndown from the master. But soon afterwards Le Corbusier showed up in Ronchamp. climbed Haut Lieu, and after peering around the site, began making quick architectural notes. For Le Corbusier, who is currently building a new capital city at Chandigarh in India's Punjab (TIME, June 8, 1953) and erecting a second edition of his much-discussed Marseille "radiant city" outside Nantes, the opportunity to build his first church was irresistible. What particularly caught his interest was the problem of designing a building to accommodate a handful of worshipers on ordinary days but on occasion...