Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of a report last night that a revolt has broken out in the state of Tonk, India, Professor E. A. Horne stated in a special interview to a CRIMSON reporter, that except for the fact that it showed the unrest which is prevalent throughout India it was of small consequence, since Tonk is a native state in whose internal affairs the British Government of India takes no hand. If the revolt gets beyond the control of the native authorities, however, the government will intervene. Nevertheless, the entire country is in a state in which a serious revolution may break...
...party realizes that if the people became contented with the present representative government, its chance for driving the English from India will be lost. Therefore the greater the prospect of success shown by the new system, the more desperate become the attempts to overthrow it. Satisfied people will not revolt, and the Extremist party wants a Revolution, although it has neither plans nor ideas as to what would follow were the revolution successful. When asked whether a revolution could succeed, Professor Horne said: "It most certainly could not. A revolt in India would be immediately put down by force...
...clearly the Extremist hand behind them. There is also in India the general unrest due to the War, that exists all over the world, the cost of living is very high, and strikes are frequent. Conditions are right for the people to nurse the ideas of race-hatred and revolt that the Extremists are spreading broadcast. If the cloud passes over, India will be well on her way to prosperous, peaceful, self-government: if the storm breaks it will shatter England's plans and put the idea of an India under her own government out of mind as impossible...
...expression of the revolt of youth against convention: keyed by a phrase from Housman's "Shrophire...
...have come round to the ballad. We cannot, and do not wish to, escape. Mr. Benet may brood over the sonnet (there are 16 in the book), but it will only flicker; it will not shine. For the sonnet's Procrustean tyranny will brook no revolt: the breather of cadences is either stretched or beheaded--both equally painful...