Word: bihar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chamberlain Scores. As a curtain raiser to the Congress City palaver, Mr. Gandhi, in his political capacity of Boss, fortnight ago ordered the native premiers of the United Provinces and Bihar to resign with their cabinets. They obeyed. The two cabinets were composed of Congress members, and the ostensible reason for Saint Gandhi's orders was the "scandalous action" of the two local British governors in "refusing the advice" of the two premiers that the jails of the United Provinces and Bihar be opened. The refusal was in accord with the safeguarding clause of the Indian Constitution, and fairly...
...with passing one big resolution: a blanket rejection of All-India Federation. The United Provinces cabinet who had so defiantly resigned as a curtain raiser, quietly withdrew their resignations as a curtain downer, carried on this week under the British Raj. Dispatches announced that the resigned native cabinet of Bihar, after a little further haggling with their British governor, were also expected to withdraw their resignations. Thus His Majesty's Government, whose game is quietly to keep pressing mercurial Indians into the mold of Sir Samuel Hoare's Constitution, appeared to have gained rather than lost ground...
...since the Mother of Parliaments enacted in London a new Constitution for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). The most recent key event was for the Indian National Congress Party, long headed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, to win elections giving it a majority in the legislatures of Bombay Presidency, Madras, Bihar and Orissa, the Central Provinces and the United Provinces (TIME, March 8). Together these make up three quarters of the population of British India. Taking returns from all provinces into account, the Party of Gandhi won a nation-wide majority as impressive as that won last autumn by Franklin Delano...
...Purnea, Bihar, poisonous snakes pursued three perjurers emerging from a murder trial, bit them to death...
...Pusa, Bihar, India...