Word: howrah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Violence. In Calcutta, several days before St. Gandhi reached Dandi, a disturbance occurred when carters blocked the great Howrah Bridge at rush hour by removing the wheels of their carts. Police said that stones were thrown at them. They replied with bullets. Six men were killed, 60 wounded, but the disturbance then quieted. On the day of the salt-making, followers of Mr. Gandhi squatted down in front of a train near Bombay, but were beaten off by police...