Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed cheerful. Now & then his eyes twinkled; sometimes he joked. But all this was deceptive. Mohandas Gandhi's shriveled body was racked by malaria. His pulse lagged. He had moments of delirium. He was 73. Death, which had walked beside him through many a fast and many a jail, again stood close. Or so, at least, it seemed last week to the British rulers of India...
...From Gandhi's prison in the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona, doctors' bulletins went to Viceroy the Viscount Wavell in New Delhi. The Raj had never intended to let the old man die in custody, and thereby become a martyr in the eyes of India's restive masses. The Viceroy, with a nod from London at the proper medical moment, ordered Gandhi's release...
Skillful lawyer, shrewd polemicist, Cambridge-educated Bose speaks and writes with logic and persuasion. In Indian politics, he used to rank at least No. 3, after Gandhi and Nehru, and for some he still is No. 1. His theme of Samyavada (equality) with no room for the idle rich has charm for millions of unhappy Indians. He emphasizes a single-party state and authoritarian discipline...
Kasturbai had been Mohandas Gandhi's child-bride of three-score years ago, when he was a boy to whom marriage meant "good clothes to wear, drum beating . . .processions, rich dinners, and a strange girl to play with." She had been the child-mother who bore him four sons, suffered his youthful, jealous rages, stayed behind when he journeyed to London schooling. She had been the gentle, illiterate, aging woman who became his "sister" and lesser disciple, shed her high caste, mingled with untouchables, picketed toddy (palm wine) shops, urged India's fettered women to join "the struggle...
...prayers ended. A lonelier Mohandas Gandhi squatted under a tamarind tree, watched the consuming flames, and wept...