32. Doctorjee's sense of Justice:

It was a policy of the British police to attack the protestors in a "satyagraha" (civil, non-violent public procession; literally, pressing for truth) with lathi charge, cane charge, tear gas and occasionally, gun fire. Such attempts to scatter the crowds came into full force whenever an inspiring leader attracted a sufficiently large crowd. Often, the British police would turn a peaceful protest march into an ugly fracas between the Hindus and the Muslims, by using their Muslim informers to spread false rumors intended to invoke the anger of the Muslim masses.

When Doctorjee reached Pune for a summer camp of Sangha in 1936, he was aghast when he saw these police tactics being used against a large band of protestors led by venerable Mr. Annarao Bhopatkar. The police intended to argue in at the right moment, pretending as if they were coming in to mediate in the Hindu-Muslim quarrels. Then they would mercilessly beat up all the peaceful Hindu satyagraha protestors, who would be so confused as to scarcely understand what went wrong. Beaten up and demoralized, they would return home, and the protest march would thus be easily defused.

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British police utterly failed, for the first time and they were badly exposed. The peaceful satyagraha was eminently successful!

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