Word: raj
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forth alarmingly in the North-West Frontier territory. Therefore last week it was "raised to the status of a Governor's Province"-this British boon being conferred upon the dazzled natives with a show of might and riches calculated to arouse wholehearted fear and admiration for the British Raj...
...promote good government throughout India the British Raj pardoned and released from jail last week numerous pickpockets and minor criminals, thus making room for followers of Mahatma Gandhi. Some 350 criminals were released from Yerovda Jail where St. Gandhi is held on no charge "during His Majesty's pleasure...
...Learned that St. Gandhi's predominantly Hindu Indian National Congress had been joined in opposition to the British Raj last week by the All India Moslem Conference which passed a strong resolution at Lahore threatening "direct action" in the struggle for Indian freedom...
Protests against the British Raj have indeed taken the form of a "no rent" campaign which is spreading throughout the United Provinces and into the realm of H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir. In Allahabad, correspondents summarized their fears by guessing that "one hundred thousand peasants in hundreds of villages" met and swore collective oaths to pay their landlords no rent...
...Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party had gathered last week in Karachi, grouped in a great camp of tents and bamboo shanties. Correspondents were not sure but what St. Gandhi was drawing near his Waterloo. Younger elements in the party were urging violent resistance to the British Raj. Leaders of this young rebellion against elderly, non-violent Mr. Gandhi were the Mayor of Calcutta, Subhas Chandra Bose and the retiring President of the Congress, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru...