... stalked portions of the countryside. There was economic distress due to rising cost of living and shortage of commodities. On the political side, Menon quotes Sir Taj Bahadur Sapru's statement that the country was more divided than when he came. Linlithgow was replaced by Lord Wavell who also relied much ... Wavell's concurrence, was conveyed to the Secretary of State in London but it was not acted upon, though Mountbatten remembered having seen it before coming out to India.Nehru arrived in Simla on the 8of May and stayed as a guest of the Viceroy at Viceregal Lodge. Mountbatten suggeste...

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... who traveled to India during the reign of Candra Gupta II (ruled 376-415 AD), refers to "pollution on approach"; that is, pollution from coming close to an Untouchable or outcast (Basham 66). During these early times, leather workers (who are impure because they work with dead animal skin) ... or Hinduism because they lived in remote areas. During Breman's period of observation, they became agricultural workers for the land-owning, higher caste Brahmins. Breman quotes J.A. Baines, who suggested that the migration of Brahmins into new regions, previously occupied by tribals, created a sy...

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