Word: wardha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the problem which Mahatma Gandhi and the All-India Nationalist Congress last week prepared to tackle with a new plan, the Wardha Education Scheme (named after Gandhi's headquarters). Its goal: a school in every village. These schools (vidya mandirs: "temples of learning") will be opened in 166 villages of one province next month and the Central Advisory Board of Education is planning to establish them soon throughout India. Championing the plan is the board's bespectacled, English-educated president, Bal Gangadhar Kher, Premier of Bombay, father of five children and himself a one-time schoolteacher...
...assure that last week's decision by the executive committee is upheld by the full Congress Committee (a gathering of more than 200 who almost invariably do as they have been told), St. Gandhi last week left his rustic village retreat, came jolting into Wardha on a bullock cart. Had the Mahatma expected opposition, he would have first half starved himself, then insisted upon walking instead of riding in a bullock cart, would have staggered into the Congress Committee and inspired his disciples with their oft-repeated "pangs of remorse for the suffering we cause the Mahatma...
...with returns complete except for eight seats still in doubt. At this Mr. Gandhi last week arose from his squatting retirement in a tiny country village. He literally walked back into Indian politics, trudging seven miles over a dusty road to take part in a Congress strategy committee at Wardha, no short walk for a spindly old fruitarian...
...Samuel Hoare. Thus, if the 1,585 Deputies cooperate and join Viceroy Lord Linlithgow in making the Constitution work, well and good. If they resort to wrecking tactics, the Constitution empowers first the provincial governors and ultimately the Viceroy completely to overrule the new Legislatures. At the special Wardha strategy committee last week, Mr. Gandhi was said to be for cooperation, President Nehru for wrecking. The Congress bigwigs who conferred with them were "about equally divided...
...Mahatma last week invited to his retreat at Wardha a 9-year-old Hindu girl named Kumari Shanti Devi, who, it is claimed, is India's first modern case of demonstrable reincarnation. In Delhi this child has aroused the interest of psychiatrists, physicians, scholars and ecclesiastics. In full detail she has described her last life on earth, which ended about a decade ago. Taken to Muttra, where her previous existence was supposedly passed, Shanti Devi identified her onetime husband and their son, now 10. In a crowded street she spied her first father and mother, raced to embrace them...