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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into nation-wide mourning to emphasize the Indian view of what has been taking place since the Mother of Parliaments enacted in London a new Constitution for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). The most recent key event was for the Indian National Congress Party, long headed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, to win elections giving it a majority in the legislatures of Bombay Presidency, Madras, Bihar and Orissa, the Central Provinces and the United Provinces (TIME, March 8). Together these make up three quarters of the population of British India. Taking returns from all provinces into account, the Party of Gandhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Sword For Pen | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...passive Mr. Gandhi, as the guiding spirit of the Indian National Congress and active, socialistic Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, its operative President, consulted with Congress leaders promptly after the provincial elections. Adopted was a nation-wide policy that no Indian National Congress partyman will accept office in one of the new provincial cabinets unless the British Governor of that province gives and keeps a formal pledge to act only on the advice of the province cabinet-just as the Emperor himself may act only on the advice of the British Cabinet. Last week every British Governor of an Indian province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Sword For Pen | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...votes cast in the U. S. about two-thirds were for Roosevelt & Garner; of votes cast in India about two-thirds were for the party of Gandhi & Nehru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Sword For Pen | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Gandhi retired from official leadership of the Congress in 1934, but his scrawny fingers have never entirely left the helm. He is Conservative and friendly to Britain by comparison with violent Congress President Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who is always preaching about "Socialism" and has keynoted that for Congressmen to take office under the new Constitution "would inevitably mean a kind of Partnership with Imperialism in the exploitation of the Indian people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Partnership with Imperialism? | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Deputies cooperate and join Viceroy Lord Linlithgow in making the Constitution work, well and good. If they resort to wrecking tactics, the Constitution empowers first the provincial governors and ultimately the Viceroy completely to overrule the new Legislatures. At the special Wardha strategy committee last week, Mr. Gandhi was said to be for cooperation, President Nehru for wrecking. The Congress bigwigs who conferred with them were "about equally divided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Partnership with Imperialism? | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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