Word: simla
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commerce manifestoed last week to the viceroy: "There is no hope for collapse of the movement inaugurated more than two months ago by Mahatma Gandhi. . . . Two courses are open: either rule by sheer force or conciliate." The Federation recommended conciliation. But Baron Irwin from his viceregal lodge at Simla replied by issuing two new edicts: 1) making even "peaceful picketing" a crime; 2) giving those who exhort people not to pay taxes as hard punishment as those...
Meanwhile the viceregal court moved from New Delhi, the expensively erected capital of British India, to salubrious Simla, the summer capital in the cool eastern Himalayas. There potent, tremendously tall Baron Irwin (the Viceroy is fully two heads taller than scrawny little St. Gandhi) received a letter in which his prisoner accused him of employing British troops in such a way as to provoke the violence which seethed last week in India...
...well be viewed with alarm by British officials. It has become necessary to remove all women and children from the vicinity of Peshawar where violence is at fever heat. At Chittagong an attempt to cut off all communications resulted in an indiscriminate massacre of Europeans and natives. At Simla some fifty casualties have been reported...