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...made him less mystical. He talked of supplanting "mass civil disobedience" with a program of "individual civil disobedience." Even his disciples were puzzled. They urged the Mahatma to make peace and petition Lord Willingdon to set free the thousands of Gandhite prisoners, some of whom have languished in Anglo-Indian jails for as much as two years. Seemingly the Mahatma felt his leadership challenged. Squatting down in the centre of the committee, he proceeded to mesmerize all present with a two-hour mystic plea that the All-India National Congress Party through its committee should once more abdicate and place...
Kiplingites will remember with a pleased grin, anti-Kiplingites with a shudder, that very Kiplingesque creature "Mrs. Hauksbee," the hardbitten, hard-headed Anglo-Indian army wife in Plain Tales from the Hills who knew what was what, was fond of uttering scraps of omniscience in scriptural Kiplingo. In English Authoress Ann Bridge's heroine, Mrs. LeRoy, Kipling readers will recognize a perfect re-edition of Mrs. Hauksbee. Mrs. LeRoy, empire-building wife of an oriental expert, has to live at the British Legation at Peking while her children are at school in England. Time: the unpleasant present...
Women. Though enfranchised Indian women have protested that they did not want special privileges, the MacDonald settlement prepares for the future by setting aside 37 seats especially for women: 25 Hindus, 9 Moslem, one Sikh, one Indian Christian, one Anglo-Indian...
...will cut off Merchant Amirhanian's children, created a trust fund which a group of Anglo-Indian lawyers were instructed to build up during the next 50 years. This year the half-century is up and prudent investments (chiefly in Indian real estate) have swelled Miser Amirhanian's fortune to the colossal total of $120,000,000. Diligent, the trustees called at Alexandria, Egypt upon white-haired, tremulous Marianne Djanikian, 80, told her that as the granddaughter of Miser Amirhanian she can now claim his fortune under the terms of the will...
...observers noted that every key post is held by an experienced, middle-of-the-road politician. Right and Left extremists have been excluded. In finance the new National Gov-ernment's line is clearly Protection in foreign affairs. In Indian affairs Scot Mac-Donald maintained the status quo (an Anglo-Indian deadlock) by appointing as Secretary of State for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, already British representative at the deadlocked Indian Round Table Conference...