Word: harijan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hidden discontent may burst forth into welcome for the Japanese should the latter land in India." He bluntly disapproved of an unofficial suggestion that the U.S., China and Britain were prepared to underwrite India's post-war self-government. As a last resort, he revealed in his newspaper Harijan, a fast-to-the-death might be his "greatest and most effective weapon...
Under the blazing sun, little Mohandas Gandhi's faith in the non-violent noncooperation which he urges for India's defense reached such furnace temperature that he wrote in the journal Harijan: "The presence of the British in India is an invitation to Japan to invade India. Their withdrawal would remove the bait. . . . Free India would be better able to cope with the invasion. Unadulterated noncooperation would then have full sway...