Word: swaraj
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...opportunists among the Hindu intellectuals and middle class bourgeoisie which form the core of the Congress party. Started in 1885 by a retired British colonial, the party, since Gandhi took control of it in World War I, has had a melange of supporters held together by one goal: Swaraj (political independence...
...boundary 62-year-old Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of Mahatma M. K. Gandhi's trusted lieutenants and legislative coordinator for the Indian National Congress Party, stepped forward to set fire to Demon Liquor. Thus did the prohibition crusade, which Sardar Patel called the "first and right step toward Swaraj (Indian independence)," come to Ahmedabad, "Manchester of India...
What is that? The phrase has always been officially translated "complete independence," but last week St. Gandhi (as a saint may) took a certain liberty with puma swaraj, first stating that it is untranslatable...
...Purna swaraj" postulated the Great Mystic, "only implies complete independence, because popular imagination in this country can never reconcile itself to the idea of a British statesman making a bona fide offer of equality. I hold differently. The British people are a practical race who love liberty for themselves. It is only a step further to love liberty for other people...
...When we achieve independence it will not be under the British flag but under a common flag. . . . Purna swaraj does not exclude association with any nation, far less with England. But this association must be of free will and for mutual benefit...