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Great Trial of 1922

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The Great Trial of 1922 took place in March 1922 following the arrest of Mohandas K. Gandhi for sedition. He appeared in the Ahmedabad court, charged under section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, without counsel. He pleaded guilty to all charges and requested that he be given the maximum penalty.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Court to Gandhi 1922

References

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  1. ^ Sexton, Bernard (1922). "The trial of Gandhi". Current History. 16 (3): 440–444. ISSN 2641-080X. JSTOR 45326737.
  2. ^ Kapoor, Pramod (2018). Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography. New Delhi: Roli Books (Lustre Collection). p. 124. ISBN 978-81-936009-1-7.
  3. ^ Majmudar, Uma (2012). "10. India welcomes home her Mahatma". Gandhi's Pilgrimage of Faith: From Darkness to Light. State University of New York Press. pp. 178–179. ISBN 978-0-7914-8351-0.
  4. ^ Malone-France, Derek (2011). "11. Statement of the great trial of 1922". Political Dissent: A Global Reader: Modern Sources. Lexington Books. p. 195. ISBN 978-0-7391-3596-9.
  5. ^ Khilnanani, Sunil (2003). "10. Gandhi and Nehru: the uses of English". In Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). A History of Indian Literature in English. Hurst & Company. pp. 138–142. ISBN 978-1-85065-681-4.
  6. ^ McDermott, Rachel Fell; Gordon, Leonard A.; Embree, Ainslie T.; Pritchett, Frances W.; Dalton, Dennis (2014). Sources of Indian Traditions: Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Columbia University Press. pp. 357–360. ISBN 978-0-231-51092-9.
  7. ^ Whiticker, Alan J. (2009). Speeches that Reshaped the World. New Holland Publishers (AU). ISBN 978-1-921655-63-0.