Word: harijan
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...charkha, brooding as ever on the woes of India's Pariah Untouchables. Inside the bare parched skull "a tempest was raging." Finally, "the voice became insistent and said, 'Why don't you do it?' I resisted but in vain.'' Last week on Harijan (Untouchables' Day) Gandhi announced what "it" was: a three-week fast to force all India's temples to admit Untouchables. He will begin on May 8. Doctors last week said he could not survive another fast. Said Gandhi, "I have no desire to die. . . . But I need for myself...