Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart British sahibs of Calcutta affected unconcern, when the Hindu Congress met, 6,000 strong, within strolling distance of the leafy Meidan, where sahibs and mem-sahibs take their aristocratic air of an evening. Actually anxious talk buzzed all up and down the English clubs and offices in Calcutta's busy Chawringhee. It was surely no good sign when the 6,000 delegates and their more than 11,000 sympathizers proceeded to burn huge piles of Made-in-England goods before sitting to business. Presiding hysterically over the bonfire, Pandit Nehru cried: "Hail, soldiers of Swaraj [Self-Determination...
What the haranguing Pandit meant was coldly and succinctly put to the Subjects Committee of the Congress by skinny, self-starved Mahatma Gandhi, squatting as usual on his little dais, naked except for a loin cloth-fanatically revered...
...unusually keen-cut terms the Mahatma proposed that the Congress deliver to the British Government an ultimatum in the following sense...
Either grant to India full and free Dominion Status before Dec. 31, 1929; or from that day forward the Congress will declare a non-violent but absolute boycott of British goods, British officials, British schools, and British taxes...
...Indian National Congress really possessed the prestige to induce all Indians to declare a boycott at Gandhi's order, even the Empire Prime Minister, big and beefy Stanley Baldwin, might well tremble at the ultimatum of India's skinny little saint. As matters stand, it can only be said that the Gandhi boycott of several years ago was a serious but not fatal blow to Great Britain's vital trade with India. Whether a more effective boycott could be staged next year is a question for Hindu Gods-and Mohammed's Allah-to answer. Last week...