Word: ahmedabad
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Ahmedabad, India, pupils of the National College noted on their faculty roster a name new to the roster, old in fame-Mahatma† Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Mahatma, well-informed, later asked students what they would have him teach. Eagerly they sought seclusion, consulted. Would it be political history from this great leader who had well-nigh secured Indian independence in 1920 by his famed policy of "passive resistance?" Or sociology?-Gandhi's profound knowledge of the "caste" system was none the less because in 1920 he had failed to persuade the masses and the "untouchable castes" to treat...