Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 1917, after Indian troops had fought long and loyally in Mesopotamia against the Turks-Mohammedans against Mohammedans-and in France against the Germans-Aryans against "Aryans"-British Secretary of State for India Edwin S. Montagu announced in Parliament that His Majesty's grateful Government was in favor of the "development of self-governing institutions ... in India." But there was a catch: Britain herself must judge "the time and the measure" of each step towards dominion status...
...time has been long, the measure small. India is still an Empire, with Britain's King its Emperor. Eight weeks ago His Excellency the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor General of India, committed India to a new war. Silently, without overt enthusiasm but also without complaint, India fell in line. It looked as though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest...
Lord Linlithgow issued a statement in Delhi. It was in answer to demands from Mahatma Gandhi's Indian National Congress Party as to what was going to happen to India during the war. Was India's dominion status a war aim? Dominion status, replied Lord Linlithgow, was certainly an aim of His Majesty's Government-after the war. In London, the Marquess of Zetland, Secretary of State for India, bade Indians meanwhile to "strive after that agreement among themselves without which they will surely fail to achieve that unity which is an essential of the nationhood...
Said Bombay Independent Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's untouchables : "What else could the Viceroy have done under the circumstances...
Last week, after the sinking of the 5,051-ton British freighter Clement in the South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge growlers on the foggy way to Greenland, big men on the cold Cape haul-all were nervous on the watch and reminiscent at mess because of a capricious, romantic, dangerous ghost that was out kissing British ships again: the German raider...