Word: gandhian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into knots. Gandhi had gone but a few times to the great popular Hindu festivals, sternly condemned the orgiastic frenzy and the exhibitions of extreme asceticism. Now, however, Gandhi belonged not only to the ages but to the people, and India celebrated his last rites in its own un-Gandhian fashion. At water's edge, the ash-laden urn was transferred to the white (for mourning) superstructure of an army "duck." With eight other ducks, it churned noisily into the river, while army planes swooped overhead, dropping flowers on the cortege. On the shore, army guns boomed a salute...
Mohandas Gandhi, who recently resigned his leadership of the Indian National Congress when many of its members seemed more anxious about India's war defenses than about Gandhian nonresistance (TIME, Jan. 12), announced last week that his successor would be his old Party comrade, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...