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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 7 (February 1, 1932.)

Clash in India

Clash in India.

Lord Irwin, who worked so strenuously for a round table settlement of the Indian problem, in his first utterance in the House of Lords in mid-December, held that such a settlement “had been immeasurably advanced by making India the joint architect of its own constitution.” But within a few weeks Gandhi and the Indian Congress had turned from architecture to civil disobedience. Arrests followed. The war between Government and the passive disobedience of Government is now on. But it is not always passive. On December 14, about the time of the House of Lords debate, the District Magistrate of Comilla was shot. He was shot by two Bengali women. This seems to herald the intervention of Indian women in Indian resistance. They will recall the passive resistance to the English education rate by free churchmen a quarter of a century ago, and the London suffragettes. To meet them, the Indian Government may enrol women police.