Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counting took four hours. Then a party official announced the results: 355 votes for Indira Gandhi and 169 for her only rival, Morarji Desai. Indira walked quickly to the podium, spoke briefly. "As I stand before you," she said in Hindi, "my thoughts go back to the great leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, at whose feet I grew up, Panditji, my father, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. These leaders have shown the way, and I want to go along the same path...
...movement is the widowed Rani of Jhansi, who joined the 1857-1858 Sepoy Rebellion against British rule. Leading her small personal army, she captured a British fort and defended it until she was cut down in battle by a British hussar. The big change in feminine status came with Mahatma Gandhi, who urged women of every caste to cast aside convention and share equally with men in India's struggle for independence. Thousands heeded his call, and as India won freedom, so did many of its women. A woman served as Shastri's Health Minister, and will probably stay...
...Monkey Brigade. Judged by that criterion, Indira bodes well indeed for India. "My public life," she declares, "began when I was three." Her mother, a frail Kashmiri, was a Congress Party leader in Indira's native city, Allahabad. Father was heir apparent to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the independence movement. Grandfather was a wealthy lawyer and an early member of the Congress movement. The Nehrus' mansion was a center for illegal Congress Party gatherings. Recalls Indira: "The most important meetings were on our lawn." Reprisals by India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both...
...made for a lonely childhood. "I have no recollection of games or playing with other children," she recalls. "My favorite occupation was to stand on a high table with the servants gathered around me and deliver thunderous political speeches." She taught her dolls to march in Mahatma Gandhi's protest demonstrations. Then other dolls would race up and lead the demonstrators off to jail. One of the callers who sometimes helped the lonely little girl stage the doll demonstrations was a frail Congress Party worker, Lal Bahadur Shastri...
...repeatedly to jail by India's British rulers, whiled away her loneliness by teaching her dolls to emulate Gandhi's principles of civil disobedience. "All my games were political," she recalls. Defying her father, she married an obscure Parsi lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), later was jailed with him for 13 months on charges of subversion. After bearing two sons, she left her husband in 1947 and returned to her father's rambling mansion in New Delhi...