Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Churchill, snorting with impatience, jumped up to shout that "Mr. Baldwin made up his mind on India three years ago! . . . More recently the Viceroy. Lord Willingdon, has told us that the only party that could work this scheme is the Indian Congress party [of Mahatma Gandhi]. And where are the Indian Congress party? They are in jail! Are we to place the loyal police under the control of the very Congress members they arrested?" Thus challenged last week. Bumbling Stanley showed exactly as much and no more metal than is pleasing to the middle-of-the-road Conservatives who have...
Because he was so imprudent as to fill his slack old stomach with a few dates soaked in water, St. Gandhi lay on a couch last week speechless from stomach ache at the wedding of his plump son Devadas to Miss Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariar, daughter of a Nationalist Congress leader...
...bride was a Brahman, highest of the four Hindu castes.* The Gandhis belong to the Vaishya or shopkeeper caste. While many marvelled, Devadas Gandhi knelt before a roaring fire in a ceremony of purification, was married by a saffron-robed priest who mumbled that henceforth he would be entitled to worship and act as a Brahman. Hindus in the audience knew that no matter what the priest said Devadas Gandhi will always be considered a Vaishya...
Married. Devadas Gandhi, 21; and Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariav, 20; in Poona, India...
...token of thanksgiving, Mrs. Gandhi, who had eaten practically nothing during the Mahatma's fast, planted a mango tree in the garden...