Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been slight. Actually, his offense has been that he is one of the world's most uncompromising advocates of unlimited democracy, continuously troublesome in the imperialistic back yard of democracy's present arch-defender. He has been three times President of the Indian National Congress; next to Gandhi himself he is the most powerful leader in India. And as a leftist, undiluted by religion, he is more dangerous to British interests than Gandhi...
...somewhat spoiled son of prosperous parents. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, spent a soft period in London dabbling in Fabianism, studying law. During World War I, back in India, he joined a couple of home-rule leagues, got married, first came to know Mohandas K. Gandhi. But when post-War restlessness brought the Rowlatt Bills and Gandhi's first defiance in India, Nehru was in at the birth. He was profoundly excited by that first great wave of nonviolence, came as near religion as he had since early childhood (not very near), and was no less profoundly...
From then on Nehru's autobiography is most fascinating as a study, in constant action, of three divergent political types: Nehru himself, his father, and Gandhi. Nehru's father, at 59, gave over his law practice and devoted the rest of his life to politics. A rich bourgeois, he was inevitably the most conservative of the three, and Nehru's differences with him, along with their great mutual affection and respect, form a fine, touching father-&-son story that many a novelist could envy...
Since wealthy onetime Indian National Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose was jailed last July, becoming the first big-time martyr of Mohandas Gandhi's new drive for Indian self-determination, he has been itching to get back into action. In November he thought up a perfectly legal device. Elected a member of the Indian Legislative Assembly, he requested release long enough for the formal swearing-in ceremony. But the British Raj flatly denied the appeal...
Moderator. Mohandas Gandhi has been the great moderating influence in India. Under the present policy of trying ruthlessly to crush nationalism, Britain apparently believes that he will be able to act with moderation over his colleagues' heads. But ten months ago Gandhi said that "riots would be a welcome relief if that is the price we must pay for freedom," and since then he has become even more uncompromising. If the Mahatma himself should decide to make a speech, and if he should be arrested, India's subsurface unrest would almost certainly boil over...