Word: moharram
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...many as 60 anti-shah protesters have dies in clashes with government troops since the start on December 2 of the holy month of Moharram, the period chosen by the shah's opposition to step up their campaign against the shah...
...relative," cabled the New York Times's Editor Frederick T. Birchall from London last week, "and the British remember what few outsiders realize, that the population of India is more than 350,000,000. Moreover these disturbances between Moslems and Hindus occur annually at the Moslem festival of Moharram (New Year) which as an occasion provocative of rowdyisms is comparable to the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland a generation...
...other observers were as complacent as British-born Mr. Birchall. Six days of Moharram rioting in Bombay (TIME, May 23) had killed 157 men and women, wounded over 1,500. The city stank. For three days none of the Hindu Untouchables who are India's garbage collectors, dared venture outdoors. Crazy mobs stormed up & down the streets burning, looting, brandishing broken bottles, crowbars, clubs. Native fire brigades raced up the streets and back again, totally unable to cope with the situation...