Word: dharmendrasinhji
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Died. Thakore Saheb Shri Dharmendrasinhji, 30, native ruler of Rajkot, India; of a heart attack; while hunting in the Gir Forest. It was to give the subjects of the despotic Thakore Saheb a voice in their Government that Mahatma Gandhi began his "fast unto death" in 1939, which he ended at the intervention of British Viceroy Lord Linlithgow, and the establishment of an advisory council...
Also, this fast was different. No longer the kingpin of the Indian National Congress, the Mahatma was out to gain new prestige or martyrdom, or even to test his own power. As an issue he picked on the Thakore Saheb (petty chief) Shri Dharmendrasinhji, ruler of Rajkot, who, like almost any other Indian prince, bears down with a heavily jeweled hand on the 75,540 people in his piddling little State of 282 square miles. It was there that Saint Gandhi got his political start...
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