Word: punjabi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last May the Indian government arrested the Sikhs' wily political leader, Master Tara Singh, for advocating a Sikh march on New Delhi to demand statehood. Before disappearing behind prison walls, Tara Singh designated Sant Fateh Singh as his successor. For weeks stretching into months, young Sikhs, shouting "Punjabi Suba Zindabad" (Long live Punjabi state), had poured out of the Golden Temple at Amritsar and the Sikh temple at New Delhi-into the waiting arms of tough Indian police, who hustled them off to prison. At one time India's overburdened detention camps held 20,000 Sikhs. Ketones & Communiqu...
...government has persuaded only a few to band together in cooperatives. For an Indian feels deeply attached to his own land and hates the idea of working on someone else's; nor does he like to trust anyone else to do his buying and selling for him. Punjabi Farmer Parbhu Dayal, 62, observed last week: "If the cooperative's tractor goes out of order, those who run the cooperative send it off to Delhi for repairs, and if the repairs cost 30 or 40 rupees, they mark it as 200 rupees in the accounts and pocket the difference...
...government educational work, religious and social resistance to rural advance has been reduced. Though Parbhu Dayal, for example, is a good Brahman who would never knowingly take the life of any animal, he welcomes government agents who arrive to poison rats and to spray insecticides in his fields. Another Punjabi farmer, Kartar Singh, 26, grudgingly admitted that his brother from New Delhi had added 20% to last year's wheat harvest by spreading rat poison around the farm during one of his visits...