Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dispatches from India last week scarcely mentioned the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, personal friend and unrelenting political enemy of Mohandas K. Gandhi. But it was Lord Linlithgow, tall, stern symbol of British policy, unbending in his scarlet-carpeted marble palace, who had stood his ground and defeated Mohandas Gandhi, frail symbol of India's ceaseless struggle for her independence...
...Gandhi had survived a fast of 21 days without wringing a single concession from Linlithgow. There had been cold logic behind the Viceroy's refusal to release Gandhi. From the standpoint of the Indian Government, the triumph of Linlithgow was complete, the failure of Gandhi was unqualified...
...Gandhi considers a fast a spiritual weapon, at once an appeal to moral forces and a self-searching of his own motives and failings, not to be undertaken unless the person fasting is certain of his moral ground. Thus on Aug. 19, 1939 Gandhi wrote in his newspaper, Harijan...
...statement was made when Congress party members and others were indulging in a spate of hunger strikes, inspired by grudges, pique and ignorance. Gandhi's denouncement was not a condemnation of his own activities: in his view, it all depended on who was fasting, and for what...
...only Gandhi would fast at our house we could have his ration book...