Word: hartals
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...Hartal. Comfort for Britons lay in the small success achieved by Swarajist leaders, last week, in organizing a hartal or "strike in mourning" against the Commission. Most industrial workers who struck at all struck for only part of one day, and a large majority of Indian shop-keepers ignored the call to close their shops. Many riots were characteristically not between Indians and the police but between Non-Co-operators and other Indians who preferred to go about their business...
Wrote famed James Louis Garvin, editor of the Observer (and also, incidentally, of the Encyclopaedia Britannica): "Significant is the failure of the hartal...
...Helped or impeded, the Commission will go forward with its work. Justification of our authority in India lies in the work we have accomplished." Exuberance. Individually the hartal groups "frothed" by burning Sir John Simon and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin repeatedly in effigy, and by sending out to greet the S. S. Rawalpindi, on which the Commission reached Bombay, several "mourning barges," draped in black, flying black flags, and topheavy with zealots who screamed: "Go back! Go back...