Word: rabindranath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They were elated, too, over the visit to their capital of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, onetime President of the Indian National Congress-the first important Indian to go to China since Rabindranath Tagore 15 years ago. Rumors of Japanese penetration in India have worried China; and the friendship of another downtrodden native race had feeling if not cash in it. Pandit Nehru received the biggest welcome ever accorded a foreign visitor. Over 200 officials and representatives of public organizations welcomed him at the pebbly island in the Yangtze which serves Chungking as an airport. Up through streets half-bombed, half-bedecked...
...present financial triennium Oct. 5, 1937, including such comparatively recent items as $65,000 to the Memorial Fund for King George V, $25.000 for Hyderabad broadcasting equipment, $12,000 to victims of the Quetta earthquake and an additional $9,000 to the academy named after Indian Poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Because his exalted Highness the Nizam is a Mohammedan (a descendant of the last Mogul Viceroy), while about 90% of his 15,000,000 subjects are Hindus, it was discreet in 1902 to appoint a Hindu Prime Minister, the Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Bahadur who was still nourishing last week...
...COLLECTED POEMS & PLAYS OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE-Macmillan ($3). Eight moralistic, literary plays, many a psalm and meditative rhapsody, some of which will be recognized as poetry by sympathetic Western readers; by India's aged (75) Hindu Nobel Prizeman...
...said he had been a soldier who had died in the ''German War": up to the age of four "he used to play frog-leap and other peculiar games. He playfully walked in military fashion and gave cautions." Mr. Yeats-Brown revisited his old friends Sir Rabindranath Tagore and Sir JagadisBose, botanist famed for his experiments on the nervous systems of plants...
...Round Table, The Christ of Every Road, The Christ on the Mount, Christ and Human Suffering. In 1928 the Methodist Episcopal Church elected Dr. Jones a bishop. He immediately resigned, preferring to pursue a calling which kept him in contact wi:h Brahmin Saint Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Poet Rabindranath Tagore. the Maharaja Gaekwar Sir Sayaji Rao III of Baroda...