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227/जैनों का संक्षिप्त इतिहास, दर्शन, व्यवहार एवं वैज्ञानिक आधार
voice against massacre of Jalian-wala-Bagh by General Dyer. Then Kheda Satyagraha and at the top of it DandiMarch witnessed by the world reporters an unarmed man walking with a bamboo staff, trod from Sabarmati to Dandi to pick up a handful of salt to challenge the mighty British Empire, braving lathi blows of its forces. He suffered imprisonment for freedom struggle for 2089 days in various Indian jails and so many others, courted arrest on mass-scale fearlessly. He made India fear-free from the clutches of imperialist-rule which left India ravaged by cyclical famines, taking toll in millions, reducing majority of people to dire poverty, leaving them half-naked, halfstarved. His fasting technique proved disastrous to the British Rule.
When Churchill derided him as half naked Fakir, striding the steps of Buckingham Palace to parley on equal terms, his was the characteristic reply, that "the king wore enough for me and my semi-naked people." Mount Batten; then serving Viceroy, rightly predicted in his lifetime that Gandhi would go down in history at par with 'Christ and Buddha'.
Round-Table-Talks were bound to fail and agitations against British Raj again made him 'Guest of King of British Empire', this time at Yervada Jail. He undertook fast unto death. His condition worsened Viceroy sent cable to Churchill who petulantly replied “has he not yet died"? Even funeral pyres were secretly arranged in Agha Khan Palace. Churchill's Order was to crush him and all he stands for, because he knew that the loss of India to the empire would be fatal. India being the jewel in the
