Word: jalalpur
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Gagged by Britain, enjoined by St. Gandhi to nonviolence, Indians faced appeals by his followers to join in a "Day of Mourning," march in protest parades, participate in hartals (do-nothing strikes). Shops were shuttered and barred in Bombay, Ahmadabad, Jalalpur as great numbers of workers struck in these cities. Guarded by armored cars, some factories at Bombay kept going, their workers harried by swarms of pickets. Censorship made certain that any bad news would be at least delayed. Said Mrs. Gandhi mildly when told of her husband's incarceration: "I hope India will show her mettle and make...
Meanwhile in Jalalpur, Bombay, Mrs. Gandhi, elderly wife of the Mahatma, urged crowds of Indian women to picket and boycott liquor stores, foreign cloth shops...
Swept with enthusiasm, a chorus of ladies followed Mrs. Gandhi to all the toddy shops of Jalalpur, singing sad and doleful songs of the evils of drink...
Early one morning last week Mahatma Gandhi, wizened, sainted patron of Indian Independence, arose from his 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...
...learned Hindu, taken a Hindu name, embraced the Hindu faith, she became tantamount to the Mahatma's private secretary, accompanied him on trips to the villages, supported his spindly frame when, though ill, he persisted in taking his ruminative walks. Madeleine Slade wished she too might have marched to Jalalpur last week, but, as she declared: "The Master does not believe in placing women, least of all English women, in the forefront of the battle...
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