Word: punjabi
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...hair grow long and talk Punjabi," said the young soldier to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb. "That is all that makes a Sikh. " But he did not say this very loud...
...constitution. It has yet to determine the place of religion in the state, though the Moslem faith is really all that binds together the two halves, which are separated by 1,000 miles of hostile India. West Pakistan is arid and Middle Eastern: its people eat wheat, speak Punjabi or Urdu, and supply most of the tough manpower for Pakistan's 250,000-man army and for its permanent civil service. East Pakistan is lush and Southeast Asian: its people eat rice, speak Bengali, and complain that they do not have the influence at Karachi to which their preponderant...
...speaking people-some 20 millions-into one state. Nehru feared this would set a trend towards the Balkanization of the Indian Republic along the lines of India's 15 languages, 250 dialects. Five other linguistic groups were already demanding that new states be carved for those who spoke Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarathi, Kanarese, Malayalam...
...life. When the Punjab's canals yield plentiful water, Pakistani peasants harvest three good crops a year; when the canals run dry, the peasants are apt to starve. Pakistan's complaint is that India has dried up eleven vital canals by diverting water from the Punjabi head-streams to its irrigation schemes...
...country, Eleanor Roosevelt stopped in Karachi where the All-Pakistan Women's Association presented her with a souvenir, a colorful dopatta (shawl) which she promptly put on for the benefit of photographers. Later, after a dinner party in Lahore where eight little Pakistani girls did a Punjabi folk dance, Mrs. Roosevelt amazed and delighted the guests by going through a 15-minute exhibition of the Virginia Reel...