Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as though wizened little St. Gandhi had never existed, India's Viceroy, his long legs encased in white kerseymere knee breeches, drove smiling through the streets of New Delhi to open the eleventh annual session of the Chamber of Princes. Bearded lancers with gay fluttering pennons trotted in front of his State carriage. A bodyguard perched behind holding a huge umbrella over the viceregal head...
...move last week toward St. Gandhi. To everyone's surprise Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, new President of the Gandhite Indian National Congress (TIME, March 28), was not at once jailed, as she had prophesied she would be. Instead she was invited to take tea with Ogre Willingdon at New Delhi...
...rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing, he knew he would surely be captured. Be tween love and duty Devi Das did not long waver. He went to the railroad station in New Delhi where a squad of police men pounced upon him, clapped him into jail. Said he: "While I am deeply at tached to my fiancee, it would not be right for me to seek happiness in marriage while my father and mother and eldest brother are in prison." In Ahmedabad the Government...
Lean Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India, rode to the Council House at New Delhi beneath a gold umbrella last week, opened India's Legislative Assembly with these words...
...fire to the police .station, put out the city lights, built huge bonfires of British cloth. Police fired into the crowd, charged with flailing lathis (sticks). Many heads were cracked, hundreds of rioters arrested. The Bombay-Benares express was derailed. Hundreds were arrested in Calcutta and New Delhi for reciting the declaration of independence in public and singing patriotic songs. At the end of three days eight persons had been killed, 1,000 jailed, many sentenced to three years' hard labor...