Word: sardar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sardar Ibrahim, president of the new state of Free Kashmir and Pakistan's delegate to the United Nations, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight on "The Kashmir Dispute...
...Vital Force? Nehru has called for a Congress revitalization, but the reaction has been sluggish. Able Sardar Valkbhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister and Nehru's strong right hand in administration and politics, is too ill and old (74) to beat a new party drum. Some disillusioned Congress followers have turned to the Socialist Party, which has just begun an organizational drive in the villages. Many more, especially from the inflation-harried middle class of clerical workers and small merchants, are turning to the extremists...
From Delhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the tough Minister for States Affairs, has hurled a challenge at the Nizam: "Accede or die." Even peace-talking Premier Jawaharlal Nehru threatened Hyderabad. With contempt he said: "It is a completely wrong notion to talk of war with Hyderabad ... If there are to be wars they must be with free countries. But ... if and when it is considered necessary we shall have military operations against Hyderabad...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, briefly interrupting his tour of war-riven Kashmir, treated himself to a game of badminton doubles, paired with Defense Minister Sardar Baldev Singh, treated the world to a pleasant scene of dignified concentration and earnest endeavor...
...last hours were full of this sense of imminence. A few minutes before his assassin shot him down, Gandhi had looked at the tinny dollar watch that dangled from his loincloth. He had been talking with Sardar Patel, Deputy Prime Minister of India. "Let me go now," said Gandhi. "It's prayer time...