Word: saurashtra
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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Dhebar is a Gandhi disciple, from Gandhi's own countryside, who subsists piously on maize bread and buttermilk. A thin man of 49, with a small mustache and glinting spectacles, he is chief minister of Saurashtra state (21,000 square miles, 4,000,000 population), which was put together in 1948 from lands formerly ruled by princes and maharajas. After a day's stint in his bare lawyer's office, Dhebar goes home to his bare, two-room dwelling, only one room of which has a carpet. Dhebar squats on the carpet and listens to the peasants...