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...Gandhi must answer her critics' charges that her military action against the Sikh rebellion was to some degree a political act. Like her 1975 declaration of a state of emergency and her detention of thousands of political opponents, her latest moves have had the effect of reinforcing her position as the head of India's strong central government. The conventional wisdom for the moment is that though she has alienated the Sikhs by the events of the past month, her action has strengthened her popularity among India's Hindu majority. It also has removed whatever doubt there...
...Pakistani border, where they called upon Sikh members of the army to rebel. Some of them did defect, while other Sikhs apparently donned army uniforms in an attempt to infiltrate and disrupt the front-line troops that shield India against potential attacks from its bitter enemy, Pakistan. The rebellion was swiftly quashed...
...first undergraduate uprising was the famous "butter riot" of 1766. Bad food had been a student complaint since the University's founding, and the rebellion started when Asa Dunbar, grandfather of Henry Thoreau, confronted an administrator and complained: "Behold, our butter stinketh and we cannot eat thereof." For inciting the ensuing demonstration, Dunbar was demoted by the Faculty, but the students rallied behind him and agreed to boycott breakfast. The Corporation and Overseers conceded that the butter was rotten, but they insisted that the students apologize for their insubordination or resign. They apologized...
...result of this Great Rebellion the Overseers and Corporation agreed on a code of 153 regulations in 13 sections, dictating everything from vacations to the requirement that the President submit an annual report to the Overseers. The Corporation now consisted completely of outsiders, and the Faculty began lobbying again for representation, but this time the Overseers stood behind the board and the movement was unsuccessful. This activity reflects the birth of the modern Harvard. The Medical, Law and Divinity Schools had been founded and the governance was almost as it remains today...
...salaries; when peasant uprisings got out of hand, the landlords organized bands of vigilantes to assist the guardsmen. In 1932, when Farabundo Marti, the father of El Salvador's revolutionary movement, led a revolt, paramilitary squads were sanctioned to aid the army in squashing the rebellion. The estimated toll: at least 10,000. The lines between official and illegal violence blurred further after the National Democratic Organization (ORDEN) was formed in the mid-1960s. ORDEN's dual purpose was to teach peasants about the evils of Communism and train them to watch out for subversives. But under...