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The following link : PETER GONSALVES is associate professor in the Faculty of Communications at the Salesian University, Rome. This essay is a part of his communication analysis on Gandhi's subversive use of clothing for liberation. Email: gonsalves.p@gmail.com.

www.mkgandhi.org/articles/half-naked-fakir.html

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Gandhi held twenty-one days to be the limit of his endurance and appears to have seen the fast as a trial before God. The viceroy charged that it was “an easy way out” and “a form of political blackmail.” The Wa Cabinet had long decided that if Gandhi chose to fast he would be allowed to die. But some Indian members of the viceroy’s council worried about Gandhi’s perishing in prison, and Linlithgow fretted that they might resign their seats if he were to risk of dying. Such weakness infuriated Churchill, who raged on February 7., “what did it matter if a few blackmoors resigned!” We could show the world that we are governing.” If indeed Gandhi died, “[w]e should be rid of a bad man and an enemy of the Empire.” His anger persisted into the next day’s War Cabinet’s meeting. The British had scored victory after victory in North Africa, the Soviets had fought the Nazis to a standstill, and the Americans were pounding the Japanese -- “and this our hour of triumph everywhere in the world,” he said, “was not the time to crawl before a miserable little old man who had always been our enemy.” ~ Page 115

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