Word: indianizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christopher T. Emmet Jr. of Stony Brook, L. I., headed by Dr. William Jay Schieffelin of Manhattan's Citizens' Union, assisted by Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College and Frank P. Graham of University of North Carolina, President Oliver La Farge of the American Association on Indian Affairs, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman...
Dominant political party of India is the Indian National Congress. It boasts a paid-up membership of 4,500,000 (yearly party fee: 9ç), puts on spectacular demonstrations, governs, through the seats it holds in the provincial legislatures, nine of the eleven provinces of British India.* Periodically it scares British governors with threats of boycotts and passive resistance campaigns...
Squirming under the Gandhi thumb, however, has been a group of educated, progressive, Westernized young Indian Leftists. While admiring Saint Gandhi's past contributions to the cause, they have nevertheless deplored the fact that the Mahatma's closest advisers have long been a group of rich Hindu moneylenders and merchants, that the Saint is not even faintly inclined to socialist principles. They also take no stock in Mahatma Gandhi's belief that machines are wicked, that earthquakes are demonstrations of God's wrath and that the primitive Indian village life is the ideal way of living...
...long record of terrorist activities. Considered at first a weakling in politics, President Bose soon began to kick at the Gandhi traces. He forced Millionaire Jamnalal Bajaj, good friend of Gandhi, to resign as Congress treasurer for "reasons of health." He curried to the masses by charging that Indian Congress officials had jailed trade unionists, used the British police to shoot strikers, limited civil liberties. Most serious charge of all, however, was that Gandhi was leading Congress to accept the federation of British India and the Indian States. This measure, advocated by the British but fought by all Leftist Indian...
Died. His Highness, Maharaja Sayaji Rao, Gaekwar of Baroda, 75, one of the richest men in the world (annual income reputed to be $10,000,000). one of five native princes entitled to a salute of 21 guns; in Bombay, India. A progressive Indian potentate, first (33 years ago) to make primary eduation compulsory and lately to permit divorce, the Gaekwar amazed his Hindus by building a mosque for Mohammedans, amazed both sects by sitting down with untouchables...