Word: kasturbai
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...emergency ordinances. Sentence may be passed in the absence of the defendant; only the substance of the evidence need be recorded. In Calcutta alone over 60 raids were made on Nationalist offices. Other raids v.ere made in Delhi. At the village of Sayadla in the Surat district, Mrs. Kasturbai Gandhi was arrested with Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of Vallabhai Patel, onetime President of the All-India National Congress, who is now jailed with St. Gandhi, and a third woman, who said she belonged to a wealthy Parsi family. All three were charged with inciting India's women...
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