Word: ashti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quit India. Aged (80) Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, nationalist leader and onetime Congress president, declared that rioters "are not only doing a great disservice to the country but are betraying the trust [nonviolence] imposed in them by Gandhi." But in the Wardha district of Ashti, near Gandhi's mud-hut home, four constables and a subinspector were stoned to death. Two other constables were doused with kerosene and burned alive. At Chimur four native police were pounded to death with their own lathees after they refused to join the rioters. Riots were less violent in the industrial cities...
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