Word: raj
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahanadi delta on the Bay of Bengal, the feudal Rajah of Athgarh is freer of the British Crown than most of his great brother princes. His people are primitive Dravidians, his realm is small, he pays no tribute and is left pretty much to himself by the British Raj. Dearer to him than his elaborate pedigree, as imaginative as it is long, is his pack of 80 police dogs. Trained to hunt man, the pack has proved a failure at hunting India's leopards and black bucks, a success at frightening the citizens of Athgarh...
From 96½ lb. the weight of Mahatma Gandhi dropped to 93¼ lb. last week as he began one more "fast unto death" in Yerovda jail to force from the British Raj greater freedom to propagandize on behalf of India's "Untouchables." Alarmed when Faster Gandhi developed acute kidney trouble. Viceroy Earl Willingdon had him removed to a hospital, also released Mrs. Gandhi from jail to permit her to attend her husband...
...police have hounded civil disobedients so hard that last week the Executive Committee was in a mood to give up. When Mr. Gandhi's whizzing motor arrived they had before them a resolution to withdraw the whole civil disobedience struggle and seek a humble compromise with the British Raj. St. Gandhi showed that his fast has certainly not made him less mystical. He talked of supplanting "mass civil disobedience" with a program of "individual civil disobedience." Even his disciples were puzzled. They urged the Mahatma to make peace and petition Lord Willingdon to set free the thousands of Gandhite...
...late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married. Margaret Dawes. 24, daughter of Utilities Man Rufus Cutler Dawes, president of Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition; and one Beverly Jefferson, 28; in Chicago. Married, Sarah Schuyler Butler, thirtyish, onetime vice chairman of New York's Republican State Committee, only child of Columbia University...
...Unity Conference." The cablegram, signed by Pandit Madan Mohan Mala viva, a Hindu leader much revered and close to Mahatma Gandhi, stated that the Unity Conference had united in rejecting the British proposals for "communal representation" and further agreed that "transference of the government from the British Raj to the Indian people is an indispensable step, preliminary to any other agreement...