Word: ramlila
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi, thousands paraded through rainy streets holding aloft black umbrellas and banners, shouting slogans and forcing offices, shops, restaurants, banks and movie houses to close. A mob of 100,000 paraded from New Delhi's Red Fort to Ramlila ground, where Nehru often addresses open-air meetings. But this time it was Communists who harangued them. In Calcutta and in Patna the picture was similar. With suspicious spontaneity the rioters, in many cases led by Communists, denounced the Nehru government for not backing the satyagrahis and demanded that troops be sent into...
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