Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning last week Mahatma Gandhi, wizened, sainted patron of Indian Independence, arose from his couch in the Sabarmarti Ashram, his settlement outside Ahmadabad, wrapped in cloth around his spidery loins, took the high road for Jalalpur, 150 miles away on the Gulf of Cambay in the centre of India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract...
Asked if he would join the campaign of, intensive civil disobedience which the nationalist Mahatma Gandhi is now threatening to launch against the viceroy in India, Krishnamurti replied. "I would take no part in politics. I do not think of myself as a citizen of any country." He did, however, state that he believes India fit for self-rule, assuming she is safe from foreign invasion...
...instead of rising to a boil congeals to passive and all-expanding ice. It is a rebellion typically modern in that it aims to force the English out of the government by forcing them out of business. Above all it is a rebellion intensified by the personality of Mahatma Gandhi with whom originated the plan of passive resistance by economic boycott and general non-cooperation...
...across the bodies of dead infidels. Against them, at the present time at least, England's defense is imperative. Practically every great plague that has scourged Europe originated in India; and the scalpel and the microscope of western science would still be a definite loss. The weakness of Mahatma Gandhi lies in his rejection of all western influence, just as the weakness of the West lies in its callousness to Eastern culture...
...Civil Disobedience," "Passive Resistance" have long been favorite watchwords of Saint Gandhi. By them he means to break the power of British rule, through refusal to pay taxes, refusal to purchase British goods* Last week, eager to put his plans into effect, he received a committee of the Indian Nationalist Congress, asked that he be appointed Dictator of Disobedience and given a council of war with sole power to say where, when, and in what manner "civil disobedience" was to start. The Nationalist congressmen, who venerate Saint Gandhi with almost religious fervor, but do not always do what he wants...