Word: wardresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant, informal manner. Her grandfather was Dadabhai Naoroji, first president of the Indian National Congress and first Indian member of the British Parliament. She was recently released from prison. First jailed (for her political views) in Bihar, she was moved under escort of eight armed policemen and one wardress to the Poona jail. On the train the sleepy police men handed her their revolvers to guard. She asked: "How can you dare do this?" Answer : "Oh, we know you're nonviolent...
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