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Word: wahid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fazli Wahid, the Haji (squire) of Turangzai was on the warpath with 10,000 bearded Afridi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Shots in an Orchard | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

Through foreign office secretaries in London hinted at a Gandhi connection, the only thing that the fighting Afridi and the nonviolent disciples of Saint Gandhi have in common is a thoroughgoing distrust of the British. Fierce Fazli Wahid is a very great warrior who would rather fight than eat. In that he is more fanatical than his followers. Month ago when he issued a call for a holy war against the British from the caves where he had been hiding north of the Khyber, the Haji's son and lieutenant, Badshah Gul, warned him that war was impossible until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Shots in an Orchard | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

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