Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finer sensibilities of hundreds of your readers. Is it good advertising, may I ask, to put out a magazine that one is ashamed to have uncovered on one's table? I for one always keep TIME well hidden. This cover I return to you [March 31, Saint Gandhi]. I don't even want it in my house. If you continue to offend I for one shall not renew my subscription...
...this sort of movement which famed Mahatma Gandhi started last week at Dandi, a miserable little beach town on the west coast of India. Wading into the warm rollers of the Arabian Sea, he and 76 followers scooped up a little water, set it on the beach to be evaporated by the sun, thus broke the British law which makes the extraction or sale of salt a British monopoly...
While Mr. Gandhi sat waiting for the water to evaporate, 319,000,000 Indians were comparatively peaceful. No riots, bloodshed or violence of any sort had marked his march on foot 165 miles from Ahmadabad to the sea at Dandi in 25 days (TIME, March 24 et seq.). He had broken the law against seditious utterance at every village on the march. He had obtained the resignation of dozens of village officials, the pledge of hundreds of villagers to join in his movement of Mass Civil Disobedience...
Child marriage was nearing its zero hour. Within a few days the law forbidding females under 14 and males under 18 to marry anywhere in British India would go into effect. Mr. Gandhi knew that as he spoke hundreds of children all over India were being married by parents frantically anxious to get their sons and daughters in under the wire. (Theory: a mature man who marries a babe, aged two, knows that the young spouse is without worldly taint...
...Gandhi himself was married at twelve to a girl of twelve. Said he last week: "Oh foolish ones! Without understanding this law you are busy marrying off little children. Shame, shame! You are so ignorant, and ignorance is the cause of your slavery to Great Britain." But though his own child-marriage was bitterly unhappy, he did not specifically condemn the custom, merely called it "ignorant...