Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahatma or Great Soul seemed to twist around his scrawny finger last week the United Kingdom Government, some 220,000.000 Hindus of all castes (from exalted Brahmins to debased Untouchables) and even the ramrod-stiff British...
...been a tfght which only Indians, perhaps only Hindus, can fully understand. Several times the Mahatma showed extreme nausea. Whenever he fainted Mrs. Gandhi vigorously rubbed his head with olive...
...Yerovda Prison and it was thrown open to delegations and personages of all sorts who ceaselessly moved in & out, arguing or pleading with the Great Soul who remained cheerful but unmoved, inflexible in his purpose: To eat no food until His Majesty's Government reached an agreement with Hindus of all castes terminating the decree of the Raj that the higher castes should constitute an electorate separate from the Untouchables in seven of the nine provinces...
Women. Though enfranchised Indian women have protested that they did not want special privileges, the MacDonald settlement prepares for the future by setting aside 37 seats especially for women: 25 Hindus, 9 Moslem, one Sikh, one Indian Christian, one Anglo-Indian...
Untouchables. The depressed and malodorous Untouchables of India will not only vote for the new Indian legislatures, but they will vote at the same time and at the same polling places as other Hindus as a move toward breaking down caste restrictions...