Word: chimur
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Honor and Msambi Juice. Shocked by the terror loosed when the Indian National Congress party was driven to open revolt, Bhansali became involved in investigations of an incident at the village of Chimur. There a mob killed three constables and a sub-inspector, then burned their bodies. British troops arrested 321 men, imposed a collective fine of 100,000 rupees on Chimur's Hindus, and sentenced 20 to be hanged, 26 to life imprisonment. Later the British modified their punishment (14 to die; 27 to receive life sentences), but ruled out Indian protests that the soldiers had looted homes...
Last week, lifting its censorship, the Raj said the Professor would be allowed to visit Chimur with an Indian member of the Viceroy's Council. The provincial government stressed the importance of "the maintenance of discipline among the military and police" and its concern for "the respect and honor of women...
...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, but they broke out sporadically from the State of Mysore in the south to the Province of Bengal in the north...
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