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...Tamil-speaking Madras state, where five people have burned themselves to death in protest, a mob captured two policemen and burned them alive. In Malayalam-speaking Kerala state, mobs attacked post offices and trains, and students signed pledges of resistance to the "imposition of Hindi," using their own blood as ink. State elections are scheduled for next month in Kerala, and the sudden emergence of the Hindi issue seems likely to hand victory back to the Communists, who ruled Kerala from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Force of Words | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

Annamalai University is situated in the rural heart of Madras State, or Tamil Nad, South India. On its eastern boundry, lush green rice paddies cover the six miles between the University and the shores of the Bay of Bengal. On the west, the campus blends almost unnoticeably into the town of Chidambaram, a religious, as well as commercial and government center. Chidambaram's two famous Hindu temples dominate the landscape for miles around, visible proof of the University's ties with traditional South India...

Author: By Marshall M. Bouton, | Title: Dilemma of Tradition, Change Faces South Indian University | 2/16/1965 | See Source »

Founded in 1930 by the wealthy merchant and Tamil culturist, Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar, the University has 3500 students (including 350 girls), and is entirely supported by the all-India University Grants Commission and the Madras State Government. One of five or six "residential universities" in India, it is organized along American lines...

Author: By Marshall M. Bouton, | Title: Dilemma of Tradition, Change Faces South Indian University | 2/16/1965 | See Source »

...then memorize them before the exam. Effective lecturing is made more difficult by some students' inability to understand spoken English, particularly a problem in the first year. This may also be a result of inadequacies in secondary education. In Madras State, for example, Tamilian regionalism complicates the problem, where Tamil replaces English as the medium of instruction in high schools...

Author: By Marshall M. Bouton, | Title: Dilemma of Tradition, Change Faces South Indian University | 2/16/1965 | See Source »

Outside the classroom, the life of the Annamalai student is in some ways similar and in many ways still in contrast to that of the Harvard student. Much time is spent in "bull sessions," or lounging in the coffee shop. Weekly movies in English and Tamil are very popular. Almost all students participate in some sport, organized or not. However, a special reason for the popularity of the "cinema" and sports may be the dearth of other extracurricular activities...

Author: By Marshall M. Bouton, | Title: Dilemma of Tradition, Change Faces South Indian University | 2/16/1965 | See Source »

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