Word: harijan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hanging the assassin," said Gandhi's old newspaper Harijan, "there is something which positively takes away from the glory of the Mahatma . . . Granting of life to murderers . . . would be an act . . . of which only a government trained by Gandhi might dream of doing...
...Jinnah. Gandhi was very tough in handling the opposition to his policy. Objecting to newspaper stories about the negotiations, he dropped his air of outward benevolence, cried: "If I were appointed dictator for a day in place of the Viceroy, I would stop all newspapers-except, of course, Harijan" (Gandhi's mouthpiece...
...British Raj issued a 76-page pamphlet entitled Statement Published by the Government of India on the Congress Party's Responsibility for the Disturbances in India, 1942-43. The pamphlet quoted at length from Gandhi's writings in the paper Harijan, from his speeches and those of Congress officers, from pamphlets and articles. Some were clearly inflammatory: "Leave India to God; if that is too much, then leave her to anarchy. . . ." "If in spite of all precautions rioting does take place, it cannot be helped." But some of the statements which were cited as evidences of treason echoed...
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...
...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...