Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this sort of movement which famed Mahatma Gandhi started last week at Dandi, a miserable little beach town on the west coast of India. Wading into the warm rollers of the Arabian Sea, he and 76 followers scooped up a little water, set it on the beach to be evaporated by the sun, thus broke the British law which makes the extraction or sale of salt a British monopoly...
...salt making demonstrations spread to other parts of India, more than 80 law-breakers were arrested, including the Mahatma's son Ram Das Gandhi. Those first brought to trial were fined up to $182 or six months in jail. A typical stroke of British statecraft was an announcement by a spokesman for the British Government that: "The Government considers Mr. Gandhi's actions merely symbolical, and not an actual violation...
Because he made a "seditious utterance" in praise of Mahatma Gandhi, the Mayor of Calcutta, Mr. J. M. Sengupta was sentenced to ten days' imprisonment last week, while he sat mute and motionless in court, refusing to make any defense. When the Mahatma came to the village of Ankhi on his walk he rebuked the inhabitants for their passive refusal to allow the local British police to buy food. "It is against religious principles to starve anyone," said the saint. "I would suck snake's poison even from General Dyer, should he be bitten...
Time set all this right, but one night, years later. Mr. Gandhi who wished to sit up with his sick father, was persuaded by Mrs. Gandhi to come to bed. The remorse of the Mahatma, when a servant knocked on the bedroom door and announced his father's death, prostrated him for two days. Not until Mrs. Gandhi passed middle age could he regard her as an intellectual helpmate...
...Mahatma Gandhi's Ideas, by C. F. Andrews (Macmillan...