Word: raj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years India had been in a state of suspended political animation. Some 3,000 nationalists were in jail,* their pleas for Indian independence silenced by the fiat of the British Raj that constitutional reform must wait till the war is won. Three years after Sir Stafford Cripps's mission, Hindus (the Congress party) and Moslems (the Moslem League) were still unable to agree on his plan for postwar Dominion status. They were also unable to agree with one another. But last week India was stirring uneasily...
...more & more frantically-for some of the threads were running rather short. Mohandas K. Gandhi was 74. He had striven for a generation to free India from British rule. But India was not independent. Moreover, the war in Europe was drawing to a close. Less than ever would the Raj be impressed by the little brown man's threats and promises to help or hinder Allied victory. He must do something quickly...
Point of No Return. Since mid-1942, when the Raj last imprisoned the Mahatma, both he and his political instrument, the All-India National Congress, had declined in power. Malaria, amoebic dysentery, low blood pressure, hookworm, anemia, weak heart & kidneys had sapped his body. His wife had died. All the leading members of the Congress Working Committee had been jailed since they voted an ultimatum to Great Britain to leave India to the Indians immediately or face mass civil disobedience (Gandhi's famed, fateful "Quit India" resolution...
...Raj took a bold step in India last week. Viceroy Lord Wavell named hardheaded, hard-working Sir Ardeshir Dalal, 60, of Bombay's famed House of Tata, to a seat on his Executive Council and the job of postwar industrial planning. Britain had smiled on the ambitious Bombay 15-Year Plan, a proposal to spend $30,000,000,000 in modernizing backward India...
...Party, banked on it for political backing. Now that the Party is in decline, they must bank on themselves and/or the British. When the Indian tycoons' man, Sir Ardeshir Dalal, joined the Viceroy's council, it looked as though India's industrialists and India's Raj were going to bank on each other. Tata & friends had said they still wanted a strong national government with power to act for India and Indians. Perhaps, through economic cooperation with the Raj, they could get what they wanted without the turmoil of India's recent past...