Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...couch in the Sabarmarti Ashram, his settlement outside Ahmadabad, wrapped in cloth around his spidery loins, took the high road for Jalalpur, 150 miles away on the Gulf of Cambay in the centre of India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract the salt therefrom in direct defiance of the British government's Indian salt monopoly and tax. This...
...Nationalist attacks. An Indian woman presented the Mahatma with a horse, to be used if any of the marchers fell sick. Little, glinting clouds of rupees were flung over the heads of the swarthy group, and on every hand sounded the CRACK, CRACK of cocoanuts broken asunder by the Hindus to assure good fortune. A volunteer band raised their horns and blared a few bars of "God Save the King" before they realized their mistake and subsided in brassy confusion...
...London the fact that the House of Commons was in recess, with the Prime Minister and every statesman of consequence away on vacation, caused the grave and startling news from India to be received with curious apathy. Evidently carnivorous Church of Englanders still view the menaces of vegetarian Hindus with the customary contempt. The Daily Herald, party organ of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, recalled that during 1929 the Indian Nationalists demanded "dominion status," and complacently alluded to the 1930 demand for Pur an Swaraj (Complete Independence) as "an academic change involving no immediate consequences." In Manhattan, Chairman Sailendranath Ghose...