Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact was that Nazimuddin had lost the confidence of the country. Under his waddling government, the country was close to general famine. Hunger riots in the rich Punjab provinces had been put down by the army with loss of at least 300 lives (TIME, March 30). There was a budget deficit of some 300 million rupees. To deal with these urgent problems, Governor General Ghulam Mohammad appointed as Prime Minister 44-year-old Mohammed Ali, Pakistan's Ambassador to Washington, who had arrived in Karachi four days earlier to discuss an agreement by which the U.S. may send wheat...
Sardar Tara Singh had no cause to love the Moslems. For two bloody centuries his Sikh people had fought them for mastery of the Punjab in northern India, and in those wars, many of his ancestors died martyrs' deaths. One of them, Bhai Mani Singh, fell into the hands of the Great Mogul Aurangzeb, who first chopped off Bhai Mani Singh's fingers, joint by joint, then lopped off his limbs, one by one. Another, Baba Sukha Singh, died under Moslem knives after assassinating a Moslem chieftain who had turned the Sikhs' holy Golden Temple at Amritsar...
Under British rule, Sardar Tara Singh and his Sikh compatriots lived in uneasy peace with their Moslem neighbors. But when the British left and India was partitioned, religious violence broke out once more. Five million Sikhs abandoned their ancestral homes in west Pakistan and fled to the East Punjab, and an equal number of Moslems fled westward. Fanatics on both sides organized themselves into bands and killed as many of the fleeing civilians as they could. White-bearded Sardar Tara Singh shook his head over this massacre of the innocent...
...minor revolution which swept this capital of the fertile Punjab province-a revolution engineered by fanatical mullahs against the Pakistan government. Five and a half years ago, when millions of frightened refugees were pouring into newly created Pakistan, the mullahs were the people's leaders. They had a strong voice in the government. But when the country began establishing industries, hospitals, schools and banks, the mullahs protested that these innovations clashed with Islamic law. When Pakistani women shed their veils and emerged from purdah (complete seclusion in the home), the more fanatic mullahs were outraged. When the time came...
Elizabeth Bennett's parents were United Presbyterian missionaries in the Punjab 46 years ago, when she was born. Elizabeth herself was sent to school in the U.S. when she was nine, grew up to become a high-school teacher in Haddonfield, N.J. But she never forgot her missionary childhood. After her husband died two years ago, she decided to go back to India. She got a job teaching in a school at Mussoorie, 100 miles north of New Delhi, and fortnight ago she sent a note to her mother in the U.S. saying how much she enjoyed being back...