Word: raj
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Setting down at New Delhi in a BOAC Britannia late one morning last week, Britain's Harold Macmillan found Union Jacks fluttering over India's capital in festive display for the first time since the British Raj moved out in 1947. Out at the airport to greet the only British Prime Minister ever to visit India while in office was an array of notables headed by Jawaharlal Nehru and backed up by thousands of cheering citizens...
...first flush of passion feels a hot tear on his hand as the girl trembles beside him, fearful and liquid-eyed as a doe he once killed. A simple, doting peasant couple lose their only son to the mysterious war of the white men's raj and begin to lose their health, sanity and land as well. Then they are told to apply for equally mysterious pension checks, thus making their son the poignantly ironic staff of their old age. The title tale Mooltiki has a hint of Disney. Mooltiki is a kind of reluctant dragon among lady elephants...
Left pretty much to themselves by the cautious British Raj in the days of empire, the savage Nagas, many of whom are good pious Baptists, have long fiercely resented the fact that Nehru's government split their tribes into two camps and clamped one under the rule of New Delhi and the other under the state of Assam...
...decade that has passed since the British Raj withdrew from India, non-Communist Asia's biggest and most populous nation has been ruled by one party and one man-the Congress Party of Jawaharlal Nehru. Last week some 365 white-capped Congress Party M.P.s assembled in New Delhi's round, red sandstone Parliament building to listen to their leader. They expected both praise and advice. What they got sounded more like a funeral oration...
...British Raj and the missionary sahibs from the Christian West, Hinduism seemed a creed outworn, soon destined to disappear. But it was just this twin invasion of commerce and Christianity, say two eminent Indian leaders, that has stirred Hinduism to new life...