Word: pandits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homeless families roamed the city in search of safety and food (most markets had been pilfered or closed). Police blotters were filled with stories of women raped, mutilated and burned alive. Indian police, backed by British Spitfire scouting planes and armored cars, battled mobs of both factions. Cried Hindu Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (who is trying to form an interim government despite the Moslems' refusal to enter it): "Either direct action knocks the Government over, or the Government knocks direct action over...
...Cabinet delegation will negotiate against a background of famine. The monsoons failed to bring India's seasonal heavy rains; cyclones and tidal waves ravaged fertile Madras Province. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, blaming the British for the food failure, called on peasants to "rebel against the political and social conditions that brought [the famine] about. ... If we have to die, let us die like men and not like rats in a hole...
Indian parties disowned the violence. Congress Leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru pleaded for a cessation of "these attacks. This is not the way to gain independence. . . . You are only damaging your own cause...
...Speakers and audience alike were tense. Outside it rained. Inside the crowd sat jampacked in steamy heat. The speeches began, but nobody heard them-the loudspeaker system had failed. Electricians fingered frantically while tempers rose. Finally Nehru began to talk. After a few words the loudspeakers failed again. The Pandit raged at a frightened Indian electrician: "Foolish man!" The day fizzled out in fiasco...
There has never been any doubt about the inner urge of India's cultured, handsome Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote these words (from jail) to his sister, Krishna. This great & good friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi has spent nearly half of his 55 years in British prisons. Not nearly so familiar is the fact that his entire family-father, mother, two sisters, wife and brother-in-law-have also gone to jail in the cause of India's freedom. Krishna Nehru's brief, informal autobiography provides an intimate introduction to the First Family of Indian passive resistance...