Word: raj
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition Mr. Gandhi and the Pandits Nehru demanded that India's defense forces be turned over to Indians, that all political prisoners be released, and that all fines collected from Indians for political offenses be paid back to them by the British Raj. After these "preliminary demands" had been met, the Gandhites declared, they would be willing to discuss the question whether they should send representatives to the Round Table...
Officials of the British raj throughout India indulged last week in considerable delaying, coloring, falsifying and suppressing of vital news...
Last week observers noted the following steps in Mahatma Gandhi's campaign of open violation of the British salt monopoly in India, his policy of passive resistance to the British Raj...
Additional specific clauses of the Declaration in effect created the Executive Committee of the Congress a Government of Independent India and authorized this Government to: 1) Proclaim "civil disobedience" to the British Raj; 2) Order nonpayment of taxes; 3) Command the desertion of the 200,000 native troops in the British Indian Army; 4) Exact the resignation of native members of the nine Provincial Legislative Councils, which flourish as puppet congresses under British tutelage; 5) And finally to do any or all of these things at such time as members of the Government may deem best...
...Nationalists met in Calcutta?their "Congress" being in fact a party caucus?and resolved this ultimatum: If the British Parliament does not grant India dominion status with a legal Indian Parliament before Dec. 31, 1929, then the Indian National Congress will proclaim civil resistance to the British raj (rule...