Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riots and demonstrations throughout India last week showed that the spreading ripple of St. Gandhi's movement for independence (TIME, March 24, et seq.) has widened to reach Peshawar near the remote Afghan frontier...
...protest against British firing on a mob at Peshawar, a funeral procession of 60 coffins was staged last week, but when British police poked the corpses about half of them leaped from their coffins, ran. Magnificent was the restraint of police at Bombay, where thousands of St. Gandhi's sympathizers were allowed to parade past the great stone arch called "The Gateway of India," past the Royal Yacht Club, past the Taj Mahal Hotel...
...places less public the police were less cool. St. Gandhi was exaggerating, not lying, when he said last week: "Instead of arresting [violators of the salt laws] the authorities have violated the persons of people who have refused to part with salt, held generally in their fists. To open their fists their knuckles have been broken, their necks have been pressed, they have been even indecently assaulted until they have been rendered senseless...
Swept with enthusiasm, a chorus of ladies followed Mrs. Gandhi to all the toddy shops of Jalalpur, singing sad and doleful songs of the evils of drink...
...Pass. Enraged by the sight of two Scotchmen looking at the Indian sun, the Indian sergeant ran amok, shot and killed both the Scotch bankers, was killed himself by the two Indian privates. Peshawar officials hastened to deny that the frenzied Indian sergeant was connected with the placid St. Gandhi movement...