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Kerala PSC Indian History Book Study Materials Page 2056
Book's First Pagethem, Sergeant Mackenzie, and another police constable visited their cells after midnight and made indecent gestures. • Lilavati Munshi, a leader of the Desh Sevikas, made this incident the subject of a rousing speech she delivered to a crowd collected to congratulate Jawaharlal on his jail sentence. • A huge rally was held in Bombay to protest the police decision to pick up women demonstrators, transport them out of the city, and abandon them in a jungle at night. Lady Jagmohandas called this action tantamount to rape. • The heavy hand of the police was felt in the rural areas. Newspaper accounts and Congress reports seldom mentioned these women by name, but reported their mistreatment as symbolic of British disregard for Mother India and Indian womanhood. • For example, it was reported that in January of 1931, the police beat “women of Borsad” unconscious when they participated in demonstrations. Kasturbabai Gandhi communicated that she had seen police grab women by the hair, hit their breasts, and utter indecent insults. • The British authorities denied these charges, but occasionally, the assaulted women pressed charges and the courts heard their cases. The British, like many of their Indian subjects, did not regard Indian women without male guardians worthy of protection from physical and sexual harassment. Investigation by India League In 1932, the Indian National Congress invited the India League of London to investigate charges of police brutality. The League accepted and their delegation, composed of two British women, one British man and one Indian man, travelled to India to see conditions first- hand. • In India, they requested permission to see the jails and speak with political prisoners. Eager to discredit this delegation before its work began, British officials charged that it was dominated by “suffragettes” and denied it interviews with political prisoners. • The delegation found substantial evidence of violence, both in the enforcement of ordinances and in lock-ups. After citing reliable information that women had been sexually threatened, sexually