Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of it was a contest between the ideas of gaunt, intellectual Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C.R."), leader of the party's great Madras section, and of gaunt, mystical Mohandas Gandhi, still the saint of most of the party...
...just what does it mean? Do the carrots refer to Gandhi and his vegetarian habits, or to Cripps himself, as the article would imply? Do the umbrellas symbolize No. 10 Downing Street, to which you imply Cripps may move, or do they stand for the shelter, peace-in-our-time type of government prevalent until...
...emerged last week as probably the third most important man in Hindu India, after Mohandas Gandhi, former leader, and Jawaharlal Nehru, present leader of the Indian National Congress party. In fact, C. R. is the man responsible for Gandhi's no longer being leader of the Congress...
...Gandhi's most intimate advisers, C. R. followed that holy man for many years on noncooperation, abolition of untouchability, hand-spinning, temperance, etc. He went to jail for his ideas, and wrote a book called Chats Behind Bars. Gaunt, hot-tempered, intellectual, he came to be regarded as the leader of the more cautious elements in the Congress, but after Pearl Harbor, C. R. decided that non-violence was no safeguard in such a violent world. With masterly tact he persuaded Gandhi not only to resign from leadership of the Congress, but to give his blessing to Nehru...
Jinnah & Co. Nehru (if he can carry the Indian National Congress away from nonresisting Gandhi) represents only a large minority of Sir Stafford's problem. Another great minority Sir Stafford had to deal with was India's 80,000,000 Moslems...