Word: raj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might have been satisfied to get "dominion status." His minimum demands were a freely-elected Indian legislature and cabinet at New Delhi. The Viceroy had half a mind to grant the Mahatma an all-Indian cabinet, reserving, however, the portfolios of Defense and Foreign Affairs for the British Raj. The Mahatma sternly declined and the conference broke up. The Viceroy issued a cordial communiqué; the Mahatma, the next morning at dawn, invited newsmen to listen to a "sunrise soliloquy" delivered by himself...