part in Satyagraha. Through these and

other friends I came in intimate contact with numerous Indian settlers of North and South India. I became more their brother than a mere legal adviser, and shared in all their private and public sorrows and hardships.
It may be of some interest to know how the Indians used to name me. Abdulla Sheth refused to address me as
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Gandhi. None, fortunately, ever insulted me by calling or regarding me as 4 saheb.’ Abdulla Sheth hit upon a fine appellation — ‘ bhai,’ i. e., brother. Others copied him and continued to address me as 4 bhai ’ until the moment I left South Africa, but there was a still sweeter flavour about the name when it was used by the ex-indentured Indians.