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...around Bombay, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Benares, Mr. Brailsford examined many Indian men and women bearing "wounds on teh feets or bruises on the stomach, made with the butt end of a rifle . . . one man with a terribly swollen arm, fractured or dislocated, hanging in a sling . . . a woman [with] a badly swollen face caused by a blow...
Meantime, the Nationalists employed a new and annoying British boycott idea. Municipal funds of Ahmedabad ($1,215,000 annual revenue, $1,460,000 reserve) were removed from English banking houses, deposited in Indian-owned institutions...
...several Nationalist disturbances of last week took place at Ahmedabad, the city from which St. Gandhi set out last March on his salt-making pilgrimage to the sea. At Ahmedabad Gandhites paraded through the streets with a barrowful of salt which they offered for sale. Police confiscated the cart, locked up 74 manifestants...
...India, however, such is the way a statesman practices his profession. Nobody thought Mahatma Gandhi mad, fortnight ago, when he started to walk 200 miles from Ahmedabad to the sea (TIME, March 24). As he trudged along last week, at an average speed of 10 miles per day, Englishmen were not amused but desperately anxious...
...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...