Word: pandits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the Congress leaders who sat around the conference table with Lord Wavell at Simla last week had spent more time in the last few years inside than outside of his jails. Among them were the Congress Party's Moslem President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (both newly released from jail), and the Congress Party's moderate, resourceful lawyer Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar. In the background hovered the little man in the dhoti, Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were...
...Palme Dutt, half-Swedish, half-Hindu Communist pundit, who is opposing Leopold S. Amery, Secretary of State for India, in Britain's general election, came felicitations from an eminent Indian wellwisher. Newly released after three years in jail, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Hindu nationalist, paused briefly in Bombay to wire Dutt luck on his pluck. Dutt's chances of election: virtually...
...show that the British Government meant what it said, Lord Wavell ordered the release of eight Congress party leaders interned since 1942. Heading the list were: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leftist disciple of Mohandas K. Gandhi; Congress President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Moslem opposed to Pakistan (the idea of an independent Moslem India); Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Bombay party boss. Then the Viceroy invited Congress and other political leaders to confer with him at Simla, the summer capital on June...
...fringes of the conference, special pleaders abounded. There were Zionists, Laborites, two representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and six Poles (three Warsaw, three London) operating as news papermen. Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit, distinguished sister of the imprisoned Indian nationalist leader, Jawaharlal Nehru, challenged the right of the titled Indian delegates to speak for the Indian people...
...Including Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru; Mohandas K. Gandhi was released ten months...