HINDU FESTIVAL
MUD-SLINGING DIVERSION. TWENTY-FIVE ARRESTS MADE. Calcutta, March 12 The Hindu spring festival called “Holi,” when a saturnalia of rejoicing is indulged in and red powder is thrown, has just been held. The festival sometimes leads to riots when Moslems are pelted with the red earth. The most elaborate police precautions were taken to ensure that there was no disturbance in the jute mills. Twenty-five arrests were made in Calcutta on a charge of flinging mud at passers-by.
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Southland Times, Issue 20446, 26 March 1928, Page 7
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79HINDU FESTIVAL Southland Times, Issue 20446, 26 March 1928, Page 7
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