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...emergence of Mahatma Gandhi on the political scene of India is an event of considerable moment. In releasing the leader of the Indian Nationalist Party from jail the British government has opened a new phase of the political situation. When the recent Round Table Conference adjourned the Indian potentates left London apparently well satisfied with the new freedom, restricted though it is, that has been given...
...home and tempt Mahatma Gandhi, who wants "independence" now, with the promise that if his Nationalist party will cooperate the British Government will grant to India "Reserved Dominion Status" in the immediate future, and full Dominion Status in the distant future...
After the War Lord Reading returned to the India of his cabin boy days as viceroy. Events obliged him to detain both the "Ali Brothers" (Mohammedans) and Mahatma Gandhi in jail, also to impose the hated salt tax against the will of the Indian Assembly, but his "judicial fairness" is remembered. In 1926 he attained the marquessate, may die a duke...
Commented one of the leading Hindu delegates from British India, Mukund Ramrao Jayakar who conferred with Mahatma Gandhi a short time before leaving India...
...Even the Mahatma himself would be satisfied with the form of government described by the Marquess of Reading...