Word: raj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gandhi's new drive for Indian self-determination, he has been itching to get back into action. In November he thought up a perfectly legal device. Elected a member of the Indian Legislative Assembly, he requested release long enough for the formal swearing-in ceremony. But the British Raj flatly denied the appeal...
This form of obedient disobedience is vastly more irritating to the British Raj than outright disobedience and is vastly more effective in stirring up Indian resentment against Britain. Although the British-censored press never carries a word about the jailings, the Indian grapevine functions quickly and smoothly. In recent months it has buzzed with a growing murmur of discontent, particularly since most of the Congress leaders have been arrested before committing a crime, have been jailed without a trial...
First act of the Viceroy against Nazi propaganda in India was to forbid that radio sets in the popular tea and betel-leaf shops be tuned in on German stations. Indian listening to the Nazis, explained the Viceroy, was "creating unjustified nervousness." Next the British Raj cut off the public payroll the Indian National Congress members who since last November in seven out of the eleven Provinces have boycotted these assemblies but continued to draw their salaries. Then Lord Linlithgow conscripted all British males from 18 to 50 for defense of India. He also conscripted skilled Indian workers, decreed speedups...
Indians, meantime, are being exhorted by the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress to non-cooperate with the Raj in all war measures. More serious, the Working Committee, which is now increasingly at outs with Mahatma Gandhi, has exhorted all local Congress committees to try to "arm the people for self-defense"-meaning possible revolt. Somehow or other the Viceroy and the white Britons he conscripted last week must manage to remain top dogs in India. This is going to be harder work than the bird-shooting, garden-partying and ceremony-going the able Scotsman has been doing...
...Fakir and his tribesmen are experts at both stealing and kidnapping. His favorite tricks are planting bombs on British parade grounds, poisoning wells, connecting telephone lines with power circuits and luring unsuspecting Indian Army contingents into death traps. Biggest feather in his turban came when he caused the British Raj to send out an expensive expedition of 30,000 men to hunt down the Fakir and his few thousand followers. The British scoured the crags and peered into caves for months without ever catching him, and at the same time lost dozens of officers, scores...