Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahatma or Great Soul seemed to twist around his scrawny finger last week the United Kingdom Government, some 220,000.000 Hindus of all castes (from exalted Brahmins to debased Untouchables) and even the ramrod-stiff British...
Eight doctors shook their heads. The Mahatma, they said, had "begun his fast with little fat and lived on muscle." After breaking his fast he was "still in the danger zone and might suffer a stroke of paralysis...
Nearly perfect was a sarcasm uttered last week by ex-Viceroy of India Baron Irwin. Last year while Mr. Gandhi was in London, Lord Irwin was often called his "friend," interceded frequently with the Mahatma on behalf of His Majesty's Government. Last week correspondents told the tall baron that in Yerovda Jail near Bombay, small Mr. Gandhi had decided to begin "a fast unto Death." Reason: to protest against the Indian franchise system arbitrarily decreed by His Majesty's Government after the leading Indians consulted had withdrawn in a body from the Government's consultative committee...
Efforts to discredit the Mahatma on the eve of his fast ranged from official British announcements that he was being fitted with a new set of false teeth to the instinctive act of a British showman who cabled Mr. Gandhi a cash offer to come to England and starve unto Death as a sideshow freak. "Your case, right or wrong," cabled Showman Luke Gannon, "will then be understood by the people of England...
...cell Mr. Gandhi placidly told his British jailers that he defied them to eject him on the "humiliating terms" that he must be detained in some other place. As to his fast the Mahatma appeared cheerful...