Word: gandhian
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...once dreamed that independent India would be "a decent country where decent people can live in decency and some dignity," now says: "I shrug; I laugh; I work. What else is there to do?'' Campbell traveled with Vasagam. another government agent, who was trying to implement the Gandhian ideal of equality for the untouchables. In a typical village he saw the higher castes stand sullenly by as Vasagam led untouchables into temples and restaurants. The next day he also saw that all utensils touched by the untouchables were cast away and broken, all places they had entered were...
...Violent Action committee also sponsored a demonstration in Nevada last summer, at the Camp Mercury testing grounds. Here, in the same spirit of Gandhian civil disobedience that has guided the crew of the "Golden Rule," eleven people attempted to enter the testing area. They were arrested for trespassing, and given a suspended sentence. Bigelow was a member of this group...
...devotion to Gandhian principle is almost autocratic. As Bombay's Chief Minister, he decreed that all schoolchildren must use cheap penholders so that those too poor to afford fountain pens would not suffer from a sense of inferiority. Despite Nehru's objections, he saddled Bombay with a prohibition law that has cut deeply into government revenues, turned bootlegging into big business. To charges that he was arbitrarily imposing his own standards of morality on his fellow citizens, he replied: "I am not trying to reform anybody. I am merely trying to remove temptation...
...years ago, when the Gujarati community of Ahmedabad rioted against Nehru's plan to submerge them in a huge, new state dominated by the Marathas, Desai-a Gujarati himself-first tried to shame the rioters into submission by staging a public fast in the Gandhian tradition. When that failed, Desai ordered the police into action. They opened fire on the mobs, injuring at least 100 people...
Through Budapest recently circulated a clandestine leaflet: "Further armed action in the face of the overwhelming strength of the Soviet army is both impossible and pointless. We Magyars must now go to the road of Gandhi." Last week there were no anonymous Gandhian millions squatting in the path of the ten Red army divisions still in Hungary. The passive resistance of the defeated Magyar nation was all in the heart and head...