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...Delhi. At the village of Sayadla in the Surat district, Mrs. Kasturbai Gandhi was arrested with Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of Vallabhai Patel, onetime President of the All-India National Congress, who is now jailed with St. Gandhi, and a third woman, who said she belonged to a wealthy Parsi family. All three were charged with inciting India's women to non-violent revolt. Mrs. Gandhi, who had pleaded to be taken with her husband at his arrest, submitted quietly, smiled serenely at the officers. At Cawnpore, scene of the Indian Mutiny Massacre of 1857, cavalry were called...
...last remaining Communist, Parsi Shapurgi Saklatvala, was heavily defeated...
...many weeks, the Presidency of Bombay has echoed the demands of the people, particularly of the Parsis,* for British justice. The echo is a reverberation of the nautch (dancing) girl affair: A nautch girl, member of the Maharaja of Indore's harem, escaped from Indore, a sovereign Hindu state, following the murder of her baby, and sought the protection of a wealthy Parsi merchant of Bombay. This was a supreme affront to the Maharaja's "izzet" (caste honor). He held out every inducement to the girl to return, but she preferred her merchant and counted on the additional...
...chief Parsi of India is Jal Dastur C. Pavry, himself someday destined to be chief. He is now studying at Columbia University, having come primarily on account of a professor, one A. V. Williams Jackson, Professor of Indo-Iranian languages. Said Parvy: "I think Professor Jackson knows more about Zoroastrianism than anybody anywhere in the world...