Word: pandits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...20?Round table conference on Indian Affairs; at St. James's Palace, London. Not invited: Mahatma Gandhi, Mrs. Naidu, Pandit Motilal Nehru, Patel brothers...
...standing came out last week in favor of the Simon Report (TIME, June 30). With virtual unanimity the Indian people, in so far as they are articulate, appeared to reject it. Speaking for imprisoned St. Gandhi, who was not allowed by the British to say anything, Acting Leader Pandit Motilal Nehru said quietly: "We simply shall not pay the slightest heed to the Simon Report...
...wild familiar Irish tune was in the air. It shrilled and banged from the oriental instruments of an outlandish procession. First on a white charger rode Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, followed by 20 elephants magnificently caparisoned. Next came famed Mahatma Gandhi, a wizened, self-starved little saint, wearing as his only garment a skimpy loin cloth?indisputably the most adored and potent man in India...
Even this mild defiance was too strong for timorous Subas Chandra Bose, leader of the delegation from Bengal. Shocked at the fiery speeches of Pandit Nehru advocating "extreme civil disobedience," he stalked from the hall; 24 other Bengali scrambled to their feet and followed...
...behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...