Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a commonplace incident in the year 1893. A young Hindu lawyer, riding the train from Durban to Pretoria, would insist on sitting in a first-class compartment. Provincial constables would restore the situation to normal by ejecting 24-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi at the next stop, a dusty station near the remote Natal-Transvaal frontier...
...leader was pudgy, bespectacled Manilal Gandhi, 53-year-old son of the enshrined Mahatma. A veteran of repeated campaigns of passive resistance, Manilal Gandhi is editor of Durban's weekly newspaper Indian Opinion, founded by his father...
Twelve weeks after his death, the people of India were vying with each other to enshrine Mahatma Gandhi. There were Gandhi auto works, Mahatma memorial colleges, Gandhi restaurants. In a Durga temple, an image of Gandhi now stood among the Hindu gods and goddesses. An enterprising manufacturer brought out the "Gandhi Cigar." The Congress Party planned a huge memorial fund (talked-of goal: $300 million), to be spent on such Gandhi causes as relief for Untouchables and village sanitation...
There was another tribute that might have pleased Gandhi even more: Moslem coolies were working at New Delhi's railway station again. A few Moslems had begun to drift back to their old farms. In twelve weeks there had been only one communal riot in all India...
...DEVADAS GANDHI...