Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporary Fascism, which he excoriates, having first branded it as "a middle-class movement." Despite the animadversions against the middle class, it would not be strictly accurate to classify this issue of "The Harvard Critic" as proletarian polemical literature, since a Hindu Communist who pens a diatribe against Gandhi, described as a bourgeois demagogue, is matched by an English Liberal who enters a plea for enlightened, that is to say, non-revolutionary socialism. On the whole, this is a very moderately subversive publication. It should not cause great agitation among the conscript fathers. Yet it has accomplished the objects...
...expert was Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, who has labored in India 25 years, whose Christ of the Indian Road is one of the best known evangelical works of modern times. Dr. Jones counts Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore among his friends; Indians call him Rishi (Holy Sage). Christian Modernists and Fundamentalists have both claimed Dr. Jones. The Methodist Episcopal Church thrice offered him bishoprics, but his only allegiance is to its Board of Foreign Missions...
Beyond his own shores he would find no new name that had skyrocketed into world consciousness during the twelvemonth. Mahatma Gandhi, 1930's Man of the Year, is still a prisoner of Britain in the Poona jail and his Indian followers are quiescent if not quiet. Pierre Laval, 1931's Man of the Year, was swept out of the premiership of France last February, is today only a Senator without portfolio. The May elections put Edouard Herriot into power for six months but fortnight ago he and his Ministry went crashing out on the issue of paying...
Swords and arrows are the weapons of the Santals, simple hill folk in upper Bengal. Last week one of their chiefs suddenly decided that he was St. Gandhi. Shouting, "I am the Mahatma! I am Gandhi himself!" he led his tribe to Malda where they seized a local mosque...
...declare a new government!" cried the pseudo-Mahatma. "In the name of myself, Gandhi, I declare the independence of this district...