Word: punjab
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...Punjab was split when India was partitioned in 1947 and the ancient Punjab Capital, Lahore, went to Pakistan. The Indian province decided to build an entirely new city for its capital. Such planned capitals are rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant designed Washington for the Potomac swamps, and a U.S. architect, Walter Burley Griffin, drew up the plans for Australia's Canberra, which replaced a sheep station in a wide, shallow river valley...
...Mayer, 52, a Manhattan architect. During World War II, when he was stationed in India as a lieutenant colonel of Army engineers, Mayer went out of his way to get to know some of the problems of India, and its people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, now Prime Minister. When the Punjab hired Mayer, Nehru said: "Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered with the traditions of the past." Designer Mayer was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "To a planner it is tremendously exciting. We start with just a blank sheet of paper...
...fast Punjab Mail train pulled out of Calcutta one evening last week, most of the passengers aboard were Punjabis returning to their home province for the Hindu marriage season and its round of celebrations. But on this trip the Punjab Mail took them only part way home. Two hundred miles northwest of Calcutta the engine lurched off a bridge. Nearly 100 passengers were killed, 150 injured...
...Pakistan." His opposition to Nehru's proposed fact-finding commission was based on the official argument that such a commission would merely "entangle both governments in the barbed wire of controversy." Then, when Nehru suggested that both leaders tour Bengal together, as they had toured the stricken Punjab in 1947, he again refused. Previous experience, said Liaquat Ali, "did not indicate that such a move would have any substantial results...
...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...