Word: ghandi
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...manufactured goods. It is this Indian trade which has given England a large part of her present manufacturing strength. The 14 percent tax which has been placed on all manufacturing machinery brought into India is a striking proof of England's desire and need for a monopoly. Ghandi had two and half million spinning wheels manufactured and distributed throughout India,, this cutting off most of the English monopoly on cloth. It is only necessary to look at the unemployment situation today in Manchester, Birmingham, and the other great English mill towns, to understand the economic importance of India to England...
...Ghandi Desire Home Rule...
...Ghandi," he went on, "does not demand complete independence for his country, but merely home rule. He wants England to redress the wrongs which she has done, and to refrain from using Indian troops in foreign wars. Contrary to the popular notion, he does not favor violence as a means to his end. His own words are" 'I would rather give up may plans than use violence, because if violence is necessary, the time for Indian freedom is not yet here'. That, of course, is not the attitude of all India, but it is the felling of the great many...
...Ghandi advocates, not complete independence, but merely home-rule, but I believe that independence is inevitable. If India gets home-rule she will then be in a position to take complete freedom whenever she wants it Now, English statesmen know home necessary India is to England in an economic way and as the most important link in the British chain of dominions, and they would therefore govern their policy so as the prevent India from breaking away. In other words, English foreign policy would be controlled by India. For this reason, England will not give home-rule...
...teacher of Christian doctrines, he has had a great deal to do with the natives themselves, and knows their habits and customs, as well as their point of view. It is the Hindu point of view which the world at large must understand in order to comprehend the Ghandi revolt against English rule, which has completely transformed India, and changed it from a nation of submissive onlookers to one of active revolutionists...