![]() ![]() For the next three days, in the words of one local paper, Bombay was gripped by “an unprecedented outbreak of racial and political violence.” Fifty-three people would die more than 400 would be wounded. Amid the rioting, police egged on, even armed, Anglo-Indian loyalists. Those gathered threw stones at European motorcades and burned minority businesses. ![]() While the Prince paraded through the city center, Gandhi presided over a bonfire of foreign cloth in the city’s suburbs, a symbolic rejection of British imports to India.Īs loyalists filtered home from the Prince’s welcome parade, they ran into the volunteers of Gandhi’s Congress movement. That same day, Bombay saw the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of India’s burgeoning non-cooperation movement. ![]() But not far from his highly staged landing, trouble was brewing. ![]()
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