Word: rajasthan
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...would antagonize the Punjab's nationalistic Hindus. Nehru also fears that if he were to give in, minority groups all over India would start to go on hunger strikes on every conceivable issue. Already the fasting fad has spread among the country's zealous crackpots: in Rajasthan, a peasant staged a two-week fast to protest a change in village boundaries; in Amritsar, one Yogi Surya Dev, who had begun a counterfast on the same day Masterji started his, continued to feed his soul by sniffing flowers...
...business trustees and their innumerable directorships. Dr. Satya Prakash of India would be high on its initial list. For Dr. Prakash, who was a visitor around Harvard during the first week of the Summer Session, is Director of not one but a dozen museums located in the state of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Dr. Prakash has been in America for most of the past year on an Indian government scholarship studying museum techniques in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Phoenix, San Francisco, New York, Boston and The Old Sturbridge Colonial Village--among other places. The last town may surprise you (it certainly did this...
...Rome," tingled to the spirit of Paris that "sped up the spin of idea and image." James Harvey in Egypt quarried into Coptic and Islamic art, felt that "through these art forms one sees the landscape of the Near East." Daniel Dickerson painted dhoti-clad Indians in a Rajasthan marketplace, tired porters in a Bangalore railway station...
...heat brought drought; the drought brought famine. In Rajasthan state last week men, their crops parched and their cattle killed, were eating slugs, dried grass and flowers. In Bihar 90% of the wells had dried up; rioting broke out among villagers who camped all night at the few wells that still gave water. In Calcutta (top temperature 111°F., the highest since 1924) half the railwaymen refused to work in the heat, created such chaos with train schedules that mobs smashed the offices of stationmasters in protest...
...commission's plan (see map) is to reduce India's 29 states to 16, all of them with a full measure of local government: four northern Hindustani-speaking states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan), two southern Telegu-speaking states (Andhra, Hyderabad), one state each for eight other languages, and two bilingual states (Punjab, Bombay). New Delhi fears harsh reaction to any changes, particularly in Punjab, with its proud Sikhs. Reduced to a minority (32%) among Hindi-speakers in an enlarged Punjab, the Punjabi-speaking Sikhs may turn their resentment into violence when the map-changers...