Word: uttar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet flags flew everywhere. Street names with an "imperial'' flavor were changed, such as Queensway, which became Road of the People. Forty thousand schoolchildren rehearsed for days their roles as spontaneous greeters. Free special trains from the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh poured peasants in to swell the city crowd; other thousands arrived by foot, by bullock cart or by camel...
...commission's plan (see map) is to reduce India's 29 states to 16, all of them with a full measure of local government: four northern Hindustani-speaking states (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan), two southern Telegu-speaking states (Andhra, Hyderabad), one state each for eight other languages, and two bilingual states (Punjab, Bombay). New Delhi fears harsh reaction to any changes, particularly in Punjab, with its proud Sikhs. Reduced to a minority (32%) among Hindi-speakers in an enlarged Punjab, the Punjabi-speaking Sikhs may turn their resentment into violence when the map-changers...
...local disgruntled Indian seemed to be threatening to use satyagraha as a weapon against Nehru's government: Socialists protesting the Congress Party's corruption, right-wingers protesting the Congress Party's socialism Communists protesting against anybody and everything. On a flying tour of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states, Nehru was shocked to discover "fissiparous tendencies" among rebellious students, Sikhs Moslems and militant groups of all kinds here were other "fissiparous tendencies" among India's millions who speak Telegu Malayalam and Tamil, who are raising a Babel cry for linguistic states of their own, and threaten...
...Lucknow, capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh, 1,000 husbands and wives gathered in a tent colony on the banks of the sacred Gomati. Fifty-one saffron-robed priests lit a sacrificial fire in their midst, blew conch shells and chanted mantras before a large statue of Gauri, wife of the Lord Shiva, god of creation and destruction. Then, in solemn silence, the husbands and wives bathed in the river and sat down in pairs, face to face. Basing their action on Lord Krishna's scriptures, the wives washed their husbands' feet and drank a few drops...
...northern India's state of Uttar Pradesh last week, Moslem trappers working in teams of four set out their nets before dawn. While three hid, one man walked to a clump .of trees. Loudly he called "Ao! ao! ao!" (Come! come! come!), and began to scatter grain. Rhesus monkeys scrambled down and followed his grain trail. When the monkeys got to the grain in the trap, a hidden operator pulled a cord and meshed them in the netting, an average dozen at a time...