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Just before the election, India's national Communist Party modified its tactics "to suit the circumstances of Gandhian India," just as Mao Tse-tung "adopted Marxism to the China of Confucius." The party's new commandments: 1) reject violence, pay lip service to Gandhian ideals, and concentrate on land reform; 2) court the middle class and the Socialists. The Communists scored a notable victory when Travancore's democratic Socialists agreed to join them for this election, in the classic, naive belief "that we shall call the tune." Last week Nehru re served his heaviest fire for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Straight Fight | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...they returned a few days later, with two genuine Helgolanders and supplies. Within a week two dozen students, newspapermen and banished Helgolanders were on the island. The most prominent new arrival was Historian Prince Hubertus zu Lowenstein, a wartime anti-Nazi refugee and postwar German nationalist. "A Gandhian gesture," explained the prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: And No Birds Sing | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: At the Three Rivers | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Nehru for Gandhi | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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