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From Gandhi's prison in the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona, doctors' bulletins went to Viceroy the Viscount Wavell in New Delhi. The Raj had never intended to let the old man die in custody, and thereby become a martyr in the eyes of India's restive masses. The Viceroy, with a nod from London at the proper medical moment, ordered Gandhi's release...
Next day the old man wrapped himself in his shawl, passed through his prison's iron gates. Outside, a cluster of followers cheered him. Wanly he smiled back. He had spent 21 isolated, sorrow-steeped months in the Aga Khan's villa ; there his Boswellian secretary, Mahadev Dezai, and his loyal wife, Kasturbai, had died (TIME, March 6). Now he journeyed to nearby Parnakuti, the rambling, white stone residence of his longtime friend, the wealthy, widowed Lady Vittal das Thackersey...
Within the prison walls of the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona death came to Kasturbai Gandhi. On the funeral day the guarded gates opened, briefly, to let aged, withered Mohandas Gandhi follow the body of his wife and co-prisoner to its pyre...
...party, won less than one-eighth of all the seats officially reserved for Moslem candidates in the Moslem provinces. But the Congress party, with 8,000 leaders still under arrest since last August's riotous break with the British, was in a weakened condition last week. From the Aga Khan's palace at Poona, Gandhi made his first public attempt to get back into the political stream since a 21-day fast had failed to gain him his freedom (TIME, March 15). The move had been prompted by Jinnah himself...
...praise for being the first Viceroy to withstand the pressure of a Gandhi fast without budging an inch. It was considered more newsworthy but less important that Gandhi, thinner than ever, his head propped on pillows, had broken his fast with a glass of orange juice in the Aga Khan's palace. Gandhi, whom the world's press last week had almost forgotten to call "Mahatma" ("Great Soul") was again just a prisoner, held incommunicado and charged with inciting revolt in wartime...