Word: simla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McMahon Frontier. The classic Chinese-Indian borders were set in 1914 at a meeting in Simla of British, Chinese and Tibetan representatives, presided over by Sir Henry McMahon. That meeting gave China nominal suzerainty over inner Tibet but not the right to interfere with its internal administration, and delineated a frontier between India and Tibet, following the spur of the Himalayas through wild and remote country. Declared Nehru last week: "So far as we are concerned the McMahon line is the firm frontier, firm by treaty, firm by right, firm by usage and firm by geography." Therefore he could...
Since the hot weather began in May more than a thousand have died in India from the heat. In the days of the British raj, civil servants used to flee from the hot plains to the summer capital in the cool hill town of Simla. But Indian civil servants, afraid of the charge that they are unwilling to put up with what the voters must, have to sweat it out in dusty New Delhi...
Iron Tubs & Partnership. Thirty-five years ago Mohan Oberoi landed his first job as $5.50-a-week desk clerk in Simla's Cecil Hotel, part of the British-owned Associated Hotels Ltd. At the time, India's inns had no room service, no running water. Guests bathed in galvanized iron tubs and brought their own servants, who bedded down in the hotel halls. Oberoi learned fast; by 1927 he was chief clerk at Simla's Clarke's Hotel, and a few years later bought a one-third partnership for $2,000 down, $6,000 later...
...Britain's royalty and India's maharajas became known derisively as the "blackest hole of Calcutta," Oberoi saw an opportunity. He talked the hotel's liquidators into a low-cost five-year lease, although his total resources were $67 in the bank and his mortgaged Simla hotel. He tore out the Grand's rat-infested plumbing, offered typhoid-worried guests unlimited soda water even for washing, installed well-built White Russian chorus girls in the hotel's three nightclubs. World War II converted the shaky gamble into a roaring business: the Grand began bedding down...
...Prime Minister Nehru warned Parliament of "a creeping in of violence in our public activities. How do we produce the atmosphere that results in this?" He had hardly finished speaking when violence broke out again, this time in the pleasant little town of Kalka, among the mountain foothills of Simla. There, police, frightened and outnumbered by an attacking mob of 1,500 people armed with stones and bottles, fired point-blank into the crowd. The toll: five dead, a score critically injured...