Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India had been in a state of suspended political animation. Some 3,000 nationalists were in jail,* their pleas for Indian independence silenced by the fiat of the British Raj that constitutional reform must wait till the war is won. Three years after Sir Stafford Cripps's mission, Hindus (the Congress party) and Moslems (the Moslem League) were still unable to agree on his plan for postwar Dominion status. They were also unable to agree with one another. But last week India was stirring uneasily...
...came back to the Viceroy with a coalition proposal: until the war ends, Congress, the Moslem League and other minority groups should form an all-party interim government without holding elections. In the Central Assembly and the five provinces where elected Indian majorities refuse to share in the government, Hindus and Moslems would each receive 40% representation, minorities the rest. Since this would mean a resumption of Indian political responsibilities without involving wartime constitutional changes, Lord Wavell has sent the scheme on to Whitehall...
...citizens of Ahmadabad, Mohandas K. Gandhi proposed a modest program: "I'll be really satisfied if Ahmadabad fulfills my cherished dream by achieving the following things: untouchability must be rooted out. Hindus and Moslems should live as brothers. Men & women should be leading a regulated life. Disparity between rich and poor should disappear. Drink, evil and also gambling should be abolished. People should be habitual khadi [homespun cotton cloth] wearers. People should observe ideal cleansing mentally and bodily. Nobody should starve in Ahmadabad. Carry out as much as you can of the above. What else? You have my blessing...
Said Viceroy Lord Wavell: "I believe if the Hindus and Moslems would work together in India's economic reconstruction and in getting on with the war they could settle their differences and achieve self-government in the near future...
...Russian-born Writer Maurice Hindus saw "a long column of captured Germans shuffling along. . . . Unwashed, unshaven and ragged, they barely dragged their feet over the dusty, rutted ground. Among them was a lieutenant colonel. 'We had no food, no ammunition,' he said. 'Our position was hopeless.' Yet all around I saw large stores of German ammunition. It lay in neatly arranged tiers, sometimes camouflaged . . . sometimes as open as the fields...