Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chubby, pleasant Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third and youngest (27) son, was jailed. A ban on news of rioting and criticism of the Government led Indian newspapers in Calcutta (15), Bombay, Lucknow, Nagpur, Delhi and Ahmadabad to close...
Quit India. Aged (80) Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, nationalist leader and onetime Congress president, declared that rioters "are not only doing a great disservice to the country but are betraying the trust [nonviolence] imposed in them by Gandhi." But in the Wardha district of Ashti, near Gandhi's mud-hut home, four constables and a subinspector were stoned to death. Two other constables were doused with kerosene and burned alive. At Chimur four native police were pounded to death with their own lathees after they refused to join the rioters. Riots were less violent in the industrial cities...
...contrast showed which one knew India. Two months ago Mohandas K. Gandhi said: "The world will feel my plans." Last week, with Gandhi and his Indian National Congress party leaders in jail, the India Office in London said: "Reports from authorities in India state that the situation is completely in hand. . . . There is no indication of any widespread mass movements...
...United Presbyterian this week, H. S. Nesbitt, a missionary in distracted India, attacked Mahatma Gandhi-for worshiping cows...
Died. Mahadev Hiralal Desai, 48, Mohandas K. Gandhi's private secretary, Indian Nationalist editor; of a heart attack; in British custody at Poona. A Brahman, he joined Gandhi when he was 27, shortly after his graduation from Bombay University. He became Gandhi's close personal adviser and "Boswell," edited the Gandhi weekly, Harijan...