Word: wardha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retirement at Wardha, Gandhi said nothing concerning the planmakers. But he wagged an admonitory finger at Britain : "Victory won at the expense of India will mean . . . there will have arisen a new monster that will seek to eat all it sees. ... It has given me no pleasure to make this statement...
...another he has visited nearly all the provinces of British India and 14 of the native states (at Udaipur the Maharajah put him up in a palace all his own with 16 servants in green livery). He has talked with Gandhi before his arrest in his mud hut at Wardha ("he is Bernard Shaw one minute and St. Francis the next")-with Jawaharlal Nehru at the homes of friends in Delhi ("the most truly simple man I have ever known")-with Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah at his marble-lined villa in Bombay ("an Indian George Arliss, complete with monocle...
...rubs (although for the first 17 days he took no water). Toward the end, as he began to lose consciousness, he received small quantities of glucose in his drinking water. Most of the 61 days he spent as a free man at Gandhi's retreat near Wardha, where he has been a children's teacher and has ground grain each night for the members' bread...
Quit India. Aged (80) Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, nationalist leader and onetime Congress president, declared that rioters "are not only doing a great disservice to the country but are betraying the trust [nonviolence] imposed in them by Gandhi." But in the Wardha district of Ashti, near Gandhi's mud-hut home, four constables and a subinspector were stoned to death. Two other constables were doused with kerosene and burned alive. At Chimur four native police were pounded to death with their own lathees after they refused to join the rioters. Riots were less violent in the industrial cities...
...virtually under control. Immediately new riots broke out in Madras, where four men were killed trying to attack a railway station. Ahmadabad mills closed. A Karaikkudi mob tried to free an Indian being jailed. Calcutta brooded restlessly, heard threats of work stoppages at vital war plants. Poona, Nagpur, Cawnpore, Wardha reported fresh riots. An airplane dropped tear gas on a crowd of Bombay mill workers. The New Delhi Town Hall was burned...