RICE RATIONS FOR HINDU DEITIES
INDIAN FAMINE PROBLEM GOVERNMENT’S REFUSAL London, Feb. 3. Vigorous protest is being made against the refusal of the Bengal Government to include daily offerings to Hindu deities in the new rice rationing plan, says the Calcutta correspondent of the “Daily Express.” Threequarters of a hundredweight of rice is cooked daily in one big Calcutta temple as an offering to a goddess. The Government, so far, is unrelenting but influential Hindus are doing their utmost to get ration cards for the deities
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 5 February 1944, Page 5
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