Word: swarajist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steersman of All-Indian Congress, potent Pandit Motilal Nehru dwarfed, from a practical standpoint, even the Big-Little Mahatma. As leader of the Swarajist Party in the Legislative Assembly at Delhi, the Pandit is an intensely active and practicing politician. His official status with the British Raj is second only to his unofficial might as President of the Hindu Congress. Grave and deeply read in law, the Pandit is also a mob-kindling orator, and moreover a zealot who gave up his lucrative legal practice in 1920, when Pied-Piper Gandhi piped "Non-Co-operation...
Hartal. Comfort for Britons lay in the small success achieved by Swarajist leaders, last week, in organizing a hartal or "strike in mourning" against the Commission. Most industrial workers who struck at all struck for only part of one day, and a large majority of Indian shop-keepers ignored the call to close their shops. Many riots were characteristically not between Indians and the police but between Non-Co-operators and other Indians who preferred to go about their business...
...game of personalities. ... In these circumstances the Government must deny that the Indian army is too large. On the contrary should certain contingencies arise [i.e., with Soviet Russia,] the army of India will not suffice. . . . I note, however, a distinct ray of hope in the waning of the Swarajist (NonCooperation) movement...
...indicated (TIME, June 29), the Pandit Motilal Nehru was elected leader of the Swarajist (Home Rule) Party in the place of C. R. Das, dead...
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