Word: sangh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election, the Pandit might perfectly well have stayed at home. There was no doubt whatever that Nehru's Congress Party would hold its comfortable majority in the soo-seat Lok Sabha (India's lower house of Parliament). The three main opposition parties (the rightist Jan Sangh, the leftist Praja Socialists and the Communists) had not put up enough candidates to win even if they swept the field...
...with sparkling eyes is deeply worried about the state of the world. He is 34-year-old Acharya Sri Tulsi Ramji, head of the Terapanthi sect of the Jains, a religious group that believes in nonviolence. In a campaign to improve humanity, Tulsi Ramji in 1948 founded the Anuvrati Sangh (Atomic Vows Society). Its members take 148 vows, renewable yearly...