Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title three years ago, the Aga Khan's principal job has been dispensing largess. Inevitably, he must turn down far more requests than he grants. In Pakistan, he inaugurated a housing project as a step toward his goal of "a house for every Ismaili family." At Punjab University, he set up five scholarships abroad, but he rejected a student demand for a $500,000 contribution: "Not a chance...
...Lord. "The first thing our boys seem to get when they go abroad," sniffed one Punjab University coed, "is the LL.D.-the landlady's daughter. Is it any wonder that we are annoyed?" A letter to the Pakistan Times charged: "Most Pakistanis who have married Western girls belong to the upper strata of society while the girls are from the lower classes. Have you heard of an English lord or duke having a Pakistani or other foreign wife?"* Still others cattily cited the unfairness of Western wiles. "Foreign girls capture our men by going out with them and spending...
...such farmer is wiry, half-naked Jagjit, sixtyish, whose 20 acres of Punjab sugar cane, wheat and pulses brought him a cash income of $485 last year. For weeks Jagjit worked night and day carrying buckets to save his half-acre patch of cane from the searing Indian sun; last week the violent onset of monsoon rains threatened to wash away his fields. Jagjit cannot afford to buy chemical fertilizer. He uses cow dung to manure his fields, but only during the monsoon, when the dung cannot be dried; the rest of the time he collects it in great mounds...