Word: hartals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assembly, such as the world has not seen in many years excepting in Russia and in Italy. . . . "Two years at hard labor are given for not leaving your home town when so ordered by police; for flying the Nationalist flag of India; for saluting that flag; for observing hartal, that is, closing your business as a protest against the imprisonment of Gandhi; for peaceful demonstrations on the street; for making speeches urging the freedom of India. . . . "The attempt made to create the impression that Gandhi's influence is on the wane, that he is losing his hold...
...Delhi a hartal (passive strike) was called after the arrest of 71 Nationalists who were picketing a liquor shop, carrying out the Mahatma's campaign against foreign cloth and spirits...