Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentence including sentence of death on persons convicted of violating the emergency ordinances. Sentence may be passed in the absence of the defendant; only the substance of the evidence need be recorded. In Calcutta alone over 60 raids were made on Nationalist offices. Other raids v.ere made in Delhi. At the village of Sayadla in the Surat district, Mrs. Kasturbai Gandhi was arrested with Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of Vallabhai Patel, onetime President of the All-India National Congress, who is now jailed with St. Gandhi, and a third woman, who said she belonged to a wealthy Parsi family...
Between the Roy* and the Viceroy there is this difference: The Earl of Willingdon on his throne at Delhi can initiate action, decree the most drastic measures?in short, can rule. Last week the return to India of Mahatma Gandhi gave the Viceroy a chance to seem every inch a king. When Mr. Gandhi begged audience by telegram to discuss Lord Willingdon's recent ordinance suppressing free speech, freedom of assembly and virtually all civil rights in Bengal (TIME, Dec. 14), he received from the Viceregal court the telegraphic answer...
Just how the little brown man justified his sudden haste to join the meeting, after turning stubborn at the last moment fortnight ago and refusing to sail with his colleagues (TIME, Aug. 31), was not made completely clear. St. Gandhi had accused the British of violating the Delhi pact, of coercing natives to pay taxes by such extreme measures as locking them up in rooms filled with angry hornets. He said he would not leave India until Viceroy Willingdon promised that during his absence there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little...
...There are still some Britons - fortunately fewer in number than they were - who believe in racial superiority and in feriority," said the new Viceroy of India. the Earl of Willingdon, last week, just be fore leaving London for New Delhi. "It is not the race of a man that counts." continued the Viceroy. "It is his character. I believe that there should be no racial discrimination at all - either socially or in the selection of men for administrative posts - even the highest." As Viceroy the Earl will receive $93,440 yearly or $1,797 per week; but in Karachi last...
...During the night New Delhi had been placarded with anonymous threats to bomb the Gandhite Nationalist Congress when it meets in Karachi, unless violent as well as non-violent agitators are first released from jail...