Word: sabha
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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When he changed, he went whole hog. Before joining Satyagraha Sabha (Gandhi's "League of People Holding to the Truth"), he gave up his law practice, and with it most of his income and all of its luxurious appurtenances. Life in the Nehru household became a chaos of conferences and political comings & goings, punctuated by arrivals of the police to pack Jawaharlal or his father off to jail. Says Krishna, "This was the beginning of a new life-a life of uncertainty, of sacrifice, of heartache. . . . Since then, going in and out of jail has become an incurable habit...