Word: raj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...negotiations might prove more difficult than the first Cripps mission. Moslem and Hindu had drawn much more closely together in the last few months-but only in their opposition to the British Raj. On the issue of Pakistan -the Moslem demand for a separate state in north India-the Congress party and the Moslem League were still poles apart. Mahomed AH Jinnah, head of the Moslem League, threatened civil war for Pakistan...
...every sign & portent this would be India's year of decision-a decision that would be bitterly contested by all three partners to India's future: the British Raj, 256 million Hindus, 92 million Moslems...
...taut months the country had watched the Raj's court-martial of three "Indian National Army" officers who had fought with the Japanese against Britain. More than 30 had been killed in protest riots (TIME, Dec. 3). A severe sentence might make these men martyrs, and touch off another nationalist explosion...
That the British Raj could ever forgive U Saw seemed possible only to those who know how devious is the course of empire and how tough the imperial going has been in Burma since it was liberated from the Japs...
...British needed an antidote for Aung San. U Saw was a possibility. He was, after all, a devil the Raj knew well...