Word: tribalization
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Call the Next Witness reports how Gopal Singh was brought to "justice." Philip Woodruff (the pseudonym of a Briton who has worked for many years in India) never tells his readers whether Gopal Singh actually did shoot his wife. But he gives them an exciting description of the religious, tribal, political and human intricacies that make Indian legal procedure as cryptic as the Indian rope trick. They also make Call the Next Witness one of the year's most striking and unusual novels...
Perched on the pillar's yard-square tip, 60 feet above the earth, Simeon could pray or preach as he chose. In actual fact he spent much time and energy corresponding with Christendom's leaders, settling individual and tribal disputes, dispensing personal counsel (men, but no women, might consult him privately). When he died in 459, Simeon the Stylite held an influential place in the early Christian church, and his holy example soon dotted the plains of Syria and upper Mesopotamia with anchorite-bearing pillars...
Russian power stopped at the Khalka River, which divides Outer from Inner Mongolia. Led by young Prince Teh, the Inner Mongolians remained unregenerately separate, tribal, lama-ridden and unso-vietized. In return for 50,000 silver dollars monthly, they owned a tenuous allegiance to the Chinese Republic. But in Outer Mongolian eyes, Inner Mongolia was an area for future redemption...
...posts in India's Executive Council -the equivalent of a national cabinet -will henceforth be filled by Indians-except those of Viceroy and the Commander in Chief (who sits as defense minister). This means that the three key portfolios of Finance, Home Affairs and External Affairs (save for "tribal and frontier matters") will be Indian-administered. India's diplomatic service abroad will be staffed by Indians.
...While the scholars gasped, Miss Dunham shed her jacket and skirt and stood revealed in her rehearsal costume. . . . She did a short tribal war dance. 'I want to go where they dance like that. I want to find out why, how it started, and what influence it had on the people.' Obviously impressed, the chairman . . . leaned forward, and, without taking a vote, asked, 'How about the West Indies...