Mahatma
Gandhi llegó a Gran
Bretaña en 1931para participar de las negociaciones por la independencia de
la India. La gente lo recibió con entusiasmo, curiosos por ver al delgado líder
que vestía ropas tan extrañas, y ponía al imperio en una situación demasiado
incómoda. Gandhi se alojó en el East End, dejando de lado el lujoso
hotel que le había asignado el gobierno. Para
saber: Madeleine Slade y en vocabulario:
Puddle
She´s one of Mr. Gandhi´s most devoted disciples…
… quite a lot of
people had waited in the pouring rain outside the Friends Meeting House in the Euston Road to see what he really
looked like…
During the
discussions between Gandhi and the
British government over 1931–32 at the Round
Table Conferences, Gandhi, now
aged about 62, sought constitutional reforms as a preparation to the end of colonial British rule, and begin the self-rule by Indians. The British side sought reforms that would
keep Indian subcontinent as a colony.
The British negotiators proposed
constitutional reforms on a British
Dominion model that established separate electorates based on religious and
social divisions.
