Word: raj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following is limited mainly to peasants in the East. But there are a formidable 30 million to 40 million country folk who revere him as a living saint. During the past 60 years, he has built up his following by siding with the impoverished peasants, first against the British raj and later against the rich absentee landlords. Living and dressing simply, he walks from village to village, dispensing a pastiche of religion and politics that he calls "Islamic socialism...
...which might have been expected to bring Indians together, instead exacerbated the problems of its linguistic, regional and religious animosities. In Indian parlance, the feuds are lumped together under the word communalism. The term once connoted a beneficial form of cooperation but in the last decades of the British Raj came to mean precisely the opposite. Communalism has long been one of India's paramount concerns, and there is every indication that the process of fragmentation is speeding...
...story. Without once forcing a point or losing faith in the viewer's ability to think for himself, he offers a fascinating study of a complex, shifting society, the urban Indian middle class caught in the clash of native tradition and the lingering relics of the British raj...
...going to be overawed," insisted Raj Kumar Khanna, India's nonplaying captain, as the match got under way in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium. "The whole world lives on hope...
SECRET AGENT (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A mysterious death in the jungles of India brings British Agent John Drake (Patrick McGoohan) out to raj over the corpse...