Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: contemporary encounters
- 2 Vortex debate: the purna swaraj decision 1929
- 3 Holds barred: anatomy of a satyagraha, Lucknow, May 1930
- 4 Peace with conflict: the Gandhi–Emerson talks, March–August 1931
- 5 Thrust and parry: the Mahatma at bay, 1932–1933
- 6 Which way ahead? Nehru and Congress strategy 1936–1937
- 7 The spider's web: Congress and provincial office 1937–1939
- 8 Working with the grain: Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and the antecedents to the Cripps Declaration 1942
- Biographical notes
- Index
3 - Holds barred: anatomy of a satyagraha, Lucknow, May 1930
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: contemporary encounters
- 2 Vortex debate: the purna swaraj decision 1929
- 3 Holds barred: anatomy of a satyagraha, Lucknow, May 1930
- 4 Peace with conflict: the Gandhi–Emerson talks, March–August 1931
- 5 Thrust and parry: the Mahatma at bay, 1932–1933
- 6 Which way ahead? Nehru and Congress strategy 1936–1937
- 7 The spider's web: Congress and provincial office 1937–1939
- 8 Working with the grain: Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and the antecedents to the Cripps Declaration 1942
- Biographical notes
- Index
Summary
I often picture to myself what would happen if we introduced the Mussolini system of government … We should, I presume, arrest everybody who made an anti-Government speech, close down all the Press, who supported the agitation, deport, intern, etc., etc., until no doubt at the end of a month or two we should probably succeed in creating a wilderness and calling it peace. Not, though, I think till we had had a good deal of shooting and that sort of thing … it would seem to me that the only result we should have achieved would have been to make our main problem of keeping India within the Empire a hundred times more difficult.
Irwin to Lord Mildmay, 23 January 1930Out of four prisoners we had to kill three; out of ten we had to kill nine and only keep one for interrogation. These were our unwritten orders.
Le Gallic, Legionnaire, 4th Bn, French Foreign Legion, Vietnam, 1931On 12 March 1930 Gandhi set out from his Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad on his march to Dandi on the Gujarat coast to start the Salt Satyagraha that was to launch the Civil Disobedience movement upon which Congress had decided at its Lahore Congress in the previous December. Until shortly before it had still not been at all clear how Civil Disobedience was actually to be offered. On 26 January 1930 ‘Independence Day’ had been celebrated in many parts of India.
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- Britain and Indian NationalismThe Imprint of Amibiguity 1929–1942, pp. 72 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997