Word: punjabis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tara Singh, 76, political leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs. Masterji, as he is called by his followers in the Punjab, was entering the second month of a fast he had sworn to keep unto death, or until the Indian government grants his demand for a Punjabi Suba-a separate, Sikh-dominated state. Few fasts since the days of Mahatma Gandhi's Empire-baiting hunger strikes had caused such a stir in India...
...sacred ritual of the soulcleansing fast as practiced by the Mahatma, Tara Singh knows what he wants: he hopes to force Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to partition about two-thirds of the Punjab's 47,456 square miles into an acU ministrative area independent of Hindu domination. The Punjabi-speaking Sikhs, whose monotheistic religion is an offshoot of the Hindu but without its caste system and swarms of gods and demigods, are the only one of India's 14 major linguistic groups without a separate state...
...rapidly weakening condition were issued twice daily at the Golden Temple. At week's end Master Tara Singh, his strength nearly gone, could no longer press his palms together in the traditional namaste greeting to his evening visitors. But he stuck doggedly to his vow: "I will have Punjabi Suba or death...
...cattier than a back fence. Not even exotic maharanis are safe from Killer Diller, who tells people not to be fooled by the big single jewel on thai lovely Punjabi forehead. "I mean, it's got to be covering something," says Phyllis "Like, a tunnel." Much of her self-written act centers in the everyday household which she usually populates with schizos now and then tossing in a normal person like the mother who said, "Eat, Chester Have you any idea how many poor people in China would want that oatmeal?" Say Chester: "Name...
Nehru's Chickens Home to Roost. Finally, the Sikh demand for a separate state is an embarrassing end result of Nehru's own mistakes. After the Prime Minister backed down last spring and allowed the division of Bombay State between the Marathi and Gujarati language groups, the Punjabi-speaking Sikhs became the only one of India's 14 major constitutionally recognized linguistic groups without a separate state...