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...first days the full impact of Mahatma Gandhi's peculiar program of civil disobedience had not yet had effect. Riots spread around Bombay, like boils, over the face of the Central Provinces. A few were reported in Bengal, where the Japs may invade from India's northeastern border...
...ninth time since 1921 that Pandit (Great Scholar) Nehru had gone to jail. Only twice has he been out for more than a year at a time. Yet for ten years he was secretary general of the Congress party, three times its president and, next to the half-naked Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi, the most powerful figure in India's political life. As a sensitive liberal and a world statesman, Nehru has outgrown the shadow of his overage Messiah. But Gandhi, self-willed, self-made symbol of the Hindu peasant, has clamped Nehru's feet to India...
When Gandhi started the khadi movement of hand-spinning and hand-weaving, Nehru found it "a throwback to the pre-industrial age." But the most fretful of Nehru's complaints against Gandhi have been caused by the Mahatma's support of systems Nehru believes are "obviously decaying" and which "stand as obstacles in the way of advance-the feudal states, the big zamindars (landowners) and talukdars ( land rent collectors), the present capitalist system...
...United Presbyterian this week, H. S. Nesbitt, a missionary in distracted India, attacked Mahatma Gandhi-for worshiping cows...
...Gita (sacred Hindu poem), the Koran and an Urdu primer under his arm, a garland of flowers around his wizened neck, he was taken in the commissioner's car to Victoria station. "Nice old fellow, that Gandhi," the commissioner said. The train chuffed on to Poona. There the Mahatma was imprisoned in the rambling stone "bungalow" of the rich Aga Khan...