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...shortage of food in the suburbs, whole families moved in and camped on sidewalks in front of grain shops. In Bijapur district, near Bombay, famine was so severe that livestock died. In Bombay five persons were reported injured in a quarrel over a piece of bread. In the Punjab farmers hoarded their grain, thereby made the bad situation worse. (The price of Punjab village brides had gone up, a sure sign of spreading inflation.) Some maharajas put their elephants out to pasture, or tried to sell them, because elephants in captivity usually get bread as well as sugar cane...
...wheat price-control act was passed in December 1941 despite wails from Punjab landlords who raise almost half of India's wheat and have been hoarding it. Last week the controlled wheat price was five to six rupees per maund (82.28 lb.), while the black-market price was 14 to 17 rupees. The result: grain prices have risen above the reach of the poorer classes; rising prices have forced the Government to print new money at the rate of about 70 million rupees per week, more than tripling the paper currency in circulation before the outbreak...
...Punjab Province in India was curry-hot with religious conflicts and revolts against British rule until 1937, when moderate Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, member of a distinguished Moslem family, became Premier of the Punjab. By straightforward administration and sense-making pleas for Hindu-Moslem unity, he succeeded in uniting the major political parties of the Punjab's 28 millions-56% Moslems, 27% Hindu, 13% warrior Sikhs-into a coalition Government which brought internal peace to the Province and has raised 500,-ooo troops to fight the Axis. Last week, at Lahore, the fruitful work of Sir Sikander was ended...
...loss of Burma deprived India of 1,500,000 tons of rice. This year there were crop failures in several large provinces. In Punjab, where crops were good, they rotted because too many farmers came down with malaria at harvest time. All over the subcontinent hoarding was predicted by farmers, wholesalers, retailers and consumers who expected greater shortages and higher prices. Railways were so overburdened with war traffic that it was difficult to move grain from areas of plenty to those in need...
...brass bands of India blared lustily last week as Moslem League President Mohammed Ali Jinnah toured the great Province of Punjab. A high British official riding Jinnah's train was pleased to note that, at station after station, the musicians played God Save the King. When he mentioned his pleasure to an Indian friend, the friend remarked: "Don't attach any political importance to that. They don't know how to play anything else...