Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 5,000 candidates sought election to 1,585 seats in the new Legislative Assemblies of the eleven provinces of British India. There was, of course, no voting in the Native States ruled by India's bejeweled potentates. The only nation-wide party is that of M. K. Gandhi who is a Hindu, and amid the Indian conglomeration of religions and races and sectional rivalries, this Indian National Congress Party won 715 seats, with returns complete except for eight seats still in doubt. At this Mr. Gandhi last week arose from his squatting retirement in a tiny country village...
...dozen Coronations and Durbars if required, correspondents were obliged to question the India Office closely. What about Sir Alexander Hardinge, the King's Private Secretary, only recently dispatched to India to perfect arrangements for the Durbar? What about the King's own uncertain health? What about Mahatma Gandhi's teeming Indian National Congress, its denunciation of the new Constitution now being given by Britain to her Indian Empire (TIME, Oct. 12, et ante)? And what about the Congress' vote to boycott every festivity connected with the Coronation (TIME...
...Their Majesties have not for years been expected to have more children. Private advices to London firms from their Bombay connections were that the Durbar had almost certainly been canceled on the advice of the Government of India. In preliminary elections under the new Constitution early returns show St. Gandhi's followers making great gains...
...called on Gandhi and many another of India's great and near-great. But the high point of his journey was at Trivandrum, where he met one Chidambaram Swami, who became his spiritual teacher, put him to work practising yoga in earnest. The pupil gives all the details of his training - breathing exercises, meditations, calisthenics - and observes that one of the prime necessities to spiritual advancement is a well-functioning bowel...
Indians, apart from their groveling submission to princely rajas and maharajas in the Native States, and apart from their tepid interest in the rubber-stamp legislative bodies in British India, have a nationwide political organization which they call the "Indian National Congress," and Mahatma Gandhi is its Prophet. In case it should ever be argued that this native Congress does not represent any considerable number of the Indian people, Mr. Gandhi has secured the attendance of some 60,000 Congressmen at each normal meeting. They met last week in a swiftly-constructed bamboo and tent city near the village...