{"id":25513,"date":"2020-12-09T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T05:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/gandhi-tries-to-get-colonial-britain-to-ban-opium-in-india-archive-1926"},"modified":"2020-12-09T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T05:30:29","slug":"gandhi-tries-to-get-colonial-britain-to-ban-opium-in-india-archive-9-december-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25513","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi tries to get colonial Britain to ban opium in India \u2013 archive, 9 December 1926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>9 December 1926: <\/strong>Addiction, particularly among the poor, has become a serious problem<\/p>\n<p>An English friend of Mr. Gandhi writes from Santiniketan, Bolpur, India:\u2013<\/p>\n<p>We arrived at the Ashram (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabindranath_Tagore\">Dr. Rabindranath Tagore<\/a>\u2019s home) on Mr. Gandhi\u2019s birthday, and, of course, hundreds of people kept arriving to do him honour. There are about 200 people living at the Ashram \u2013 mostly in families. Some scholarship boys are there for three months to learn spinning and weaving so that they can go out to the villages and spend their lives working among the humblest, starting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khadi\">khaddar<\/a> so as to augment the scanty wages of the peasants, teaching them to think for themselves, trying to break down \u201cuntouchability,\u201d discouraging child marriages, and weaning the people, men, women, and children alike, from drink and opium.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/09\/gandhi-tries-to-get-colonial-britain-to-ban-opium-in-india-archive-1926\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 December 1926: Addiction, particularly among the poor, has become a serious problemAn English friend of Mr. Gandhi writes from Santiniketan, Bolpur, India:\u2013We arrived at the Ashram (Dr. Rabindranath Tagore\u2019s home) on Mr. Gandhi\u2019s birthday, and, of co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[969,749,372,62,831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-colonialism","category-drugs","category-india","category-mahatma-gandhi"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25514,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513\/revisions\/25514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}