Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a tfght which only Indians, perhaps only Hindus, can fully understand. Several times the Mahatma showed extreme nausea. Whenever he fainted Mrs. Gandhi vigorously rubbed his head with olive...
During the struggle Britain's common-sense Raj yielded first on a minor point. Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon's much publicized order to eject the Mahatma from jail and detain him under guard in another place (TIME, Sept. 26) simply was not carried out. Instead Mr. Gandhi was moved to the largest room in Yerovda Prison and it was thrown open to delegations and personages of all sorts who ceaselessly moved in & out, arguing or pleading with the Great Soul who remained cheerful but unmoved, inflexible in his purpose: To eat no food until His Majesty's Government reached...
Heart Change. Exciting was the change of heart and mind worked by the Mahatma's fast, last week, upon Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambdekar, the Raj's hand-picked and appointed "Representative of the Untouchables...
...London last year at the Indian Round Table Conference, Dr. Ambdekar scornfully denied the Mahatma's claim that he (Gandhi) represented the Untouchables as well as the rest of India. When Mr. Gandhi announced his fast Dr. Ambdekar, addressing the advisory Indian Legislative Assembly, called it "a political stunt." Soon afterward Dr. Ambdekar began to break down, saying that perhaps Mr. Gandhi had solved the electoral issue "in a moment of reflection" and that he vished to see him. The meeting took place last week and Untouchable Dr. Ambdekar as well as high-caste Hindu leaders were apparently moved beyond...
...Gandhi IF. In the United Kingdom, where statesmen observe the Friday-to-Monday week-end quite as scrupulously as the Sabbath, extreme inconvenience was caused by the Mahatma's fast. Daily, then hourly, then every few minutes the King-Emperor, Prime Minister MacDonald and the India Office received bulletins from the eight doctors at Yerovda Jail, not to mention bales of cablegrams from the Viceroy and hundreds of Indian leaders. If? worried the British?if Gandhi actually died without breaking his fast, would that release the violence which hundreds of millions of Indians are capable* of exerting, but which...