Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mohandas K. Gandhi, 75, revealed the formula by which he plans to live for another 50 years: plenty of humor, a balanced diet, early to bed & early to rise, no stimulants, "a brake upon impetuosity," resignation to the will...
...Moslem League's Nawabzada Liaqat Ali Khan, 49, who reportedly had set out to break the interminable deadlock. Both were members of the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi, both felt that they could negotiate with the British authorities more freely than their policy-bound leaders, Mohandas Gandhi and Mohamed Ali Jinnah...
First, soft-spoken Lawyer Desai had a talk with the Viceroy, Lord Wavell. Then he consulted Gandhi and his old friend Liaqat Ali Khan. Finally he came back to the Viceroy with a coalition proposal: until the war ends, Congress, the Moslem League and other minority groups should form an all-party interim government without holding elections. In the Central Assembly and the five provinces where elected Indian majorities refuse to share in the government, Hindus and Moslems would each receive 40% representation, minorities the rest. Since this would mean a resumption of Indian political responsibilities without involving wartime constitutional...
...retirement at Wardha, Gandhi said nothing concerning the planmakers. But he wagged an admonitory finger at Britain : "Victory won at the expense of India will mean . . . there will have arisen a new monster that will seek to eat all it sees. ... It has given me no pleasure to make this statement...
...Including Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru; Mohandas K. Gandhi was released ten months...