Word: sardar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress Party's grim, potent boss, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who hates Jinnah almost as much as he does the British, was openly scornful of both. The Moslem League, he said, had won electoral advantages during the war by stooping to aid Britain. "Do I think the British are sincere," he asked, "in their promise to leave India? They have been making promises ever since Queen Victoria's time, and they have always broken them...
...Government meant what it said, Lord Wavell ordered the release of eight Congress party leaders interned since 1942. Heading the list were: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leftist disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi; Congress President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Moslem opposed to Pakistan (the idea of an independent Moslem India); Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bombay party boss. Then the Viceroy invited Congress and other political leaders to confer with him at Simla, the summer capital on June...
...Punjah challenge was quickly checked when another Punjah member, Sardar Kartar Singh, answered: "Gandhi may not be a four-annas member, but Gandhi and Congress are identical...