Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after the ceremony Lord Willingdon announced that a knighthood had been awarded to the British designer of the project: Charlton Scott Cholmeley Harrison. Undoubtedly the Lloyd Barrage will do more for the people of northwestern India than anything St. Gandhi has been able to think of, but all its waters could not quench Nationalist pride. India seethed with the news that A. A. Musto, native engineer in charge of construction who spent seven hot summers by the dam site, designed much special machinery, was not rewarded...
...ready to die for Gandhi," said Krishna Kant...
...Gandhi has stated as part of his creed that civil disobedience is not only a natural right of the people . . . but that it is also an effective substitute for violence or armed rebellion. Experience has proven time and time again that in India civil disobedience cannot be carried on without violence...
Raids. With St. Gandhi and most of the important Nationalist leaders in jail (.TIME, Jan.11). Viceroy Lord Willingdon stiffened his repressive ordinances still further. Picketing British shops was already a crime. Last week special judges were empowered to pass any sentence including sentence of death on persons convicted of violating the emergency ordinances. Sentence may be passed in the absence of the defendant; only the substance of the evidence need be recorded. In Calcutta alone over 60 raids were made on Nationalist offices. Other raids v.ere made in Delhi. At the village of Sayadla in the Surat district, Mrs. Kasturbai...
Meanwhile St. Gandhi squatted quietly in stone-walled Yerovda Jail, spinning 500 yards of yarn a day, sipping goat's milk, walking round & round the prison compound with a retired British private as companion...