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Last July 10,000 Hindus marched through the streets of Ahmedabad pulling a chariot on which stood six youths lustily cudgeling a grotesque image labeled DEMON LIQUOR. At the city's boundary 62-year-old Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of Mahatma M. K. Gandhi's trusted lieutenants and legislative coordinator for the Indian National Congress Party, stepped forward to set fire to Demon Liquor. Thus did the prohibition crusade, which Sardar Patel called the "first and right step toward Swaraj (Indian independence)," come to Ahmedabad, "Manchester of India...
Night before Mahatma Gandhi was to begin a march across India preaching "individual civil disobedience" he and a group of his disciples were jailed at Ahmedabad by order of stern Viceroy Earl Willingdon, successor to mild Baron Irwin who as Viceroy permitted Mr. Gandhi to achieve world prominence by his famed "salt march to the sea" (TIME, March...
Mahatma Gandhi smiled a smile of paternal satisfaction last week as the fourth member of his family went to jail. He had been highly pleased when his second son Harilal, onetime foe of Nationalism, renounced his opposition and went to prison in Ahmedabad. But his youngest son did even more. Last week Devi Das Gandhi, 20, was to have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing...
...committees of the Round Table Conference prepared to resume sessions 24 native commercial organizations voted to suspend business for a week as a protest against the exclusion of St. Gandhi. The Bombay government retaliated by ordering the arrest of any merchant closing his place of business. At Ahmedabad an Indian surgeon was fined 1,000 rupees for refusing for the third time to remove the Gandhi tricolor from his dispensary. Unimpressed by the much publicized martyrdom of Krishna Kant (TIME, Jan. 25). a British magistrate ordered a 14-year-old boy flogged for picketing a British bank...
...Latest addition to St. Gandhi's sisterhood in his model colony on the banks of the Sbarmati River at Ahmedabad is 21-year-old Nilla Cram Cook. She arrived from Greece where she took part in the Delphic festival and where she spent two years in a Sisters of Charity convent accustoming herself to the contemplative life. Beauteous, of classic mold, she is the first U. S. addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook...