Word: subcontinental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bloody Welter. The struggle has been 18 years in the making, and the basic issue is religion. After the British left the subcontinent in 1947, Pakistan and India emerged as independent nations in a welter of blood. An estimated half a million people were slain in the Moslem-Hindu riots...
Question of Will. India under Lai Bahadur Shastri remains hung up on its dipolar destiny: karma and dharma. According to Hindu philosophy, two major injunctions dictate a man's way of life. Karma is predestined fate, the godly consequence that dictates the caste and society into which the Hindu...
Yet under the slothful surface, India is astir with powerful new social and economic forces. The nation does not now possess the know-how or the energy to raise itself from poverty and despair. To that extent, India's lethargy is a valuable check against firebrand revolutionaries who would...
Kaleidoscope of Contrast. Shastri's India is less a nation than a notion, possessed of a fragile unity that barely transcends its geographical boundaries. Into a triangular wedge of the world only a third as big as the U.S., India packs 480 million people and more than 200 million...
Historically, the crosscurrents are just as diverse. Invaders have swept across India's deserts and hacked through its stifling jungles since time immemorial, riding everything from elephants to armored personnel carriers, swinging everything from stone hammers to 120-mm. mortars. But under the two centuries of the British raj...