Gandhi also spoke of the abduction of women by rioters. On the Indian side of the border, Hindus and Sikhs had acted likewise with Muslim women. They estimated that the number of abducted women was close to forty thousand in all, a large, perhaps we should say alarming, figure. It is meaningless to ask which of them is more barbaric. He first met Gandhi with Horace Alexander in June , and then caught up with him again in late In September Symonds returned to India to work among Partition refugees.
In December he fell seriously ill with typhoid, and was admitted into a hospital, from where Gandhi had him removed to Birla House, where he spent several weeks recovering.
Every day, Gandhi would drop in to see the patient, and have a chat. In truth, Gandhi probably found the experience nourishing too; despite his hostility to British imperialism, he was enormously fond of the British, and in this time of tension and stress, conversations with a sensitive young Englishman would have been a relaxation. The public mood in Delhi remained angry, and soon rioting broke out once more in the city.
Gandhi further postponed his plans to visit Punjab. This was just as well, for the trouble escalated. In Mehrauli, a village on the outskirts of Delhi, there was a celebrated Sufi shrine, visited by tens of thousands of people, including Hindus and Muslims.
Now the Muslims whose families had tended the shrine for hundreds of years were hounded out by a Hindu mob. On 12th January, Gandhi informed his prayer meeting that he was commencing a fast the next day. But all of a sudden you lost patience. Gandhi would not be moved. On the morning of the 12th, he went to the Viceregal Palace to inform Mountbatten of his fast. Later, Nehru came to Birla House and sat with Gandhi for two hours.
Then he had a long conversation with Vallabhbhai Patel. The fast formally began at He spoke of, among other things, the perception that Indian Muslims trusted both him and Nehru, but not Patel.
Gandhi thought this slightly unfair. Inside the house, speaking with Gandhi, were Patel, Azad, and Nehru. They told him that the slogans were on behalf of the refugees who needed food, homes, clothes, and jobs. After the prayer meeting on January 25, Gandhi mentioned the beginning of Urs at the shrine of Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Chisti at Mehrauli from the next day. On January 27, Gandhi was taken aback to find only one Muslim in the audience at his prayer meeting.
When he had visited the shrine earlier that day, the Muslims informed him that the number of visitors had dwindled out of fear. They say that what happened in Allahabad could happen here and ask what the Hindus would do then. It is a shameful situation that one man should be frightened of another man. To destroy a symbol of love was as shameful as propagating fear among equals. It is not a matter of law but a cultural and moral sensibility.
What are the limits of a Gandhian fast? Other than its strictly nonviolent conception, Gandhi draws its contours by reference to the object of the hunger strike. I quote him at length:. You cannot fast against a tyrant, for it will be a species of violence done to him. You invite penalty from him for disobedience of his orders but you cannot inflict on yourselves penalties when he refuses to punish and renders it impossible for you to disobey his orders so as to compel infliction of penalty.
Fasting can only be resorted against a lover, not to extort rights but to reform him, as when a son fasts for a father who drinks. My fast at Bombay and then at Bardoli was of that character. I fasted to reform those who loved me. But I will not fast to reform, say, General Dyer, who not only does not love me but who regards himself as my enemy.
Am I quite clear? Gandhi thus lays out two different models of the fast based on its intended object or target. When starvation is inflicted upon the self as a weapon against those who have committed injustice, it has the danger of trying to provoke punishment where the tyrant refuses, and hence, the risk of being coercive and extractive. What is the longest hunger strike? Having refused food and water for more than weeks, she has been called "the world's longest hunger striker".
What did Gandhi sacrifice? This is the true meaning of Yagna, for Gandhi sacrificed an easy-win or at least a quick loss for India by refusing to engage it in armed warfare.
He sacrificed his status as a fighter. Who invented the hunger strike? It was only on the th day of their fast, on October 5, that Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt gave up their strike surpassing the day world record for hunger strikes which was set by an Irish revolutionary. What did Gandhi try to accomplish with his activism? Leader of a Movement As part of his nonviolent non-cooperation campaign for home rule, Gandhi stressed the importance of economic independence for India.
He particularly advocated the manufacture of khaddar, or homespun cloth, in order to replace imported textiles from Britain. In which movement did Mahatma Gandhi fast in March ? What happened with Gandhiji in ? Gandhi fell to the ground.
He was carried back to his room in Birla House from which a representative emerged sometime later to announce his death.
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