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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bombay an Indian National Congress member named Vinoba Bhave was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for making, or being about to make, a speech against the war. Vinoba Bhave, who was picked as the first martyr of Mohandas Gandhi's new civil-disobedience movement three months ago, had been released from jail just in time to go back again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Jewel in Jeopardy | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...Presidents (Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Mrs. Sarojini Nai-du), four former Prime Ministers of Indian provinces, eleven former Ministers, five speakers of provincial legislatures, seven members of the Congress Working Committee (Cabinet) and 100-odd members of the Congress Executive Committee-practically every important Congress leader except Mohandas Gandhi himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Jewel in Jeopardy | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Obedient Disobedience. The Viceroy of India, the Marquess of Linlithgow, had warned the Mahatma that civil disobedience and speeches against the war would not be tolerated. Crafty Gandhi ordered his people not to make such speeches. Then, week after week, one by one, his followers would ostensibly set out for some remote village to make a speech. Before each one left, Congress headquarters would call British officials and announce that in keeping with the Mahatma's orders they wished to report the forthcoming act of disobedience. As the disobedient one was about to leave he would be arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Jewel in Jeopardy | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...being industrialized (it is now No. 7 of the industrial countries of the world); it was experiencing a renaissance in science and in learning; it was becoming socially and politically awake. Eleven years ago last week the Indian National Congress adopted a Declaration of Independence. Written by Mohandas Gandhi himself and proclaimed by Congress President Jawaharlal Nehru, it said in part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Jewel in Jeopardy | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Died. Katherine Mayo, 73, crusading authoress whose best-selling Mother India in 1927 caused an international stir; after long sickness; in Bedford Hills, N. Y. Said Mahatma Gandhi as Miss Mayo's indictment of Hindu caste and culture was being burned throughout India: "A book. . . every Indian can read with . . . profit. We may repudiate the charge. . . but . . . not the substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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