Word: sharma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Violence came anyhow-from the Hindi-speaking Hindus who would form a minority in the new state. Protesting partition of Punjab, Yagya Dutt Sharma, 47, a leader of the militantly orthodox Jana Sangh Party, began a fast of his own in the marketplace of Amritsar. Refusing any sustenance except a few daily glassfuls of Gangajal-water from the Ganges-Sharma quickly lost 15 Ibs. in the first week, soon was unable...