Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death still hovered over the fragile body (which had lost a pound a day for six days) when Mr. Gandhi ended his hunger strike by saying a prayer, quavering a hymn of joy, sipping an ounce or two of orange juice and exclaiming weakly "Satyagraha [Soul Force] has triumphed...
...been a tfght which only Indians, perhaps only Hindus, can fully understand. Several times the Mahatma showed extreme nausea. Whenever he fainted Mrs. Gandhi vigorously rubbed his head with olive...
During the struggle Britain's common-sense Raj yielded first on a minor point. Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon's much publicized order to eject the Mahatma from jail and detain him under guard in another place (TIME, Sept. 26) simply was not carried out. Instead Mr. Gandhi was moved to the largest room in Yerovda Prison and it was thrown open to delegations and personages of all sorts who ceaselessly moved in & out, arguing or pleading with the Great Soul who remained cheerful but unmoved, inflexible in his purpose: To eat no food until His Majesty's Government reached...
...London last year at the Indian Round Table Conference, Dr. Ambdekar scornfully denied the Mahatma's claim that he (Gandhi) represented the Untouchables as well as the rest of India. When Mr. Gandhi announced his fast Dr. Ambdekar, addressing the advisory Indian Legislative Assembly, called it "a political stunt." Soon afterward Dr. Ambdekar began to break down, saying that perhaps Mr. Gandhi had solved the electoral issue "in a moment of reflection" and that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond...
...Probably Gandhi is right in fighting for the inclusion of India's sixty million "untouchables" in a general Hindu electorate, both provincial and central, but there seems to be danger in his policy as well. Although Gandhi wishes merely to resolve the intricate Hindu caste system into four basic castes it is likely that once started the movement can only end in the break-up occurs the entire system and should this occur much will be be destroyed as well as gained...