CHAPTER XLIII

AT NAGPUR
HE resolutions adopted at the
A Calcutta special session of the Congress were to be confirmed at its annual session at Nagpur. Here again, as at Calcutta, there was a great rush of visitors and delegates. The number of delegates in the Congress had not been limited yet. As a result, so far as I can remember, the figure on this occasion reached about fourteen thousand. Lalaji pressed for a slight amendment to the clause about the boycott of schools which I accepted. Similarly, some amend¬ ments were made at the instance of the Deshabandhu after which the
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non-co-operation resolution was passed unanimously.
The resolution regarding the revision of the Congress constitution too was to be taken up at this session of the
Congress. The sub-committee’s draft was presented at the Calcutta special session. The matter had therefore been thoroughly ventilated and thrashed out. At the Nagpur session, where it came up for final disposal, Sjt. C. Vijayaraghavachariar was the President. The Subjects Com¬ mittee passed the draft with only one important change. In my draft the
number of delegates had been fixed, I think, at 1,500; the Subjects Committee substituted in its place the figure 6,000. In my opinion this increase was the result of hasty judgment, and experience of all these years has only confirmed me in my view. I hold it to be an utter delusion to believe, that a large number of dele¬ gates is in any way a help to the
better conduct of the business, or that it safeguards the principle of democracy.
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Fifteen hundred delegates, jealous of the interests of the people, broad-minded and truthful, would any day be a better safeguard for democracy than six thousand irresponsible men chosen any¬ how. To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their represen¬ tatives only such persons as are good and true. But obsessed with the idea of numbers as the Subjects Committee was, it would have liked to go even beyond the figure of six thousand. The limit of six thousand was therefore in the nature of a compromise.
The question of the goal of the Congress formed a subject for keen discussion. In the constitution that I had presented, the goal of the Congress was the attainment of Swaraj within the British Empire if possible and without if necessary. A party in the Congress wanted to limit the goal to Swaraj within the British Empire only. Its
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viewpoint was put forth by Pandit Malaviyaji and Mr. Jinnah. But they were not able to get many votes. Again the draft constitution provided, that the means for the attainment were to be peaceful and legitimate. This condition too came in for opposition, it being contended, that there should be no restriction upon the means to be adopted. But the Congress adopted the original draft after an instructive and frank discussion. I am of opinion, that if this constitution had been worked out by the people honestly, intelligently and zealously, it would have become a potent instrument of mass education, and the very process of working it out would have brought us Swaraj. But a discussion of the theme would be irrelevant here.
Resolutions about Hindu Muslim unity, the removal of untouchability and Khadi too were passed in this Congress, and since then the Hindu members of the Congress have taken upon themselves the responsibility of ridding Hinduism
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of the curse of untouchability, and the Congress has established a living bond of relationship with the 4 skeletons ’ of India through Khadi. The adoption of non-co-operation for the sake of the Khilafat was itself a great practical attempt made by the Congress to bring about Hindu Muslim unity.
FAREWELL
BUT the time has now come to bring these chapters to a close.
My life from this point onward has been so public, that there is hardly anything about it, that the people do not know. Moreover since 1921 I have worked in such close association with the Congress leaders, that I can hardly describe any episode in my life since then without referring to my relations with them. For though Shraddhanandji, the Deshabandhu, Hakim Saheb and Lalaji are no more with us today, we have the good luck to have a host of other veteran Congress leaders still living
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and working in onr midst. The history of the Congress, since the great changes in it that I have described above, is still in the making. And my principal experiments during the past seven years have all been made through the Congress. A reference to my relations with the leaders would therefore be unavoidable,
if I set about describing my experiments further. And this I may not do, at
any rate for the present, if only from a sense of propriety. Lastly my con¬ clusions from my current experiments
can hardly as yet be regarded as decisive. It therefore seems to me to be my plain duty to close this narrative here. In fact my pen instinctively refuses
to proceed further.
It is not without a wrench that I have to take leave of the reader. I set a high value on my experiments. I do not know whether I have been able to do justice to them. I can only say that I have spared no pains to give a faithful narrative. To describe truth, as it has
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appeared to me, and in the exact manner in which I have arrived at it, has been my ceaseless effort. The exercise has given me ineffable mental peace, because it has been my fond hope, that it might bring faith in Truth and Ahimsa to waverers.
My uniform experience has convinced me, that there is no other Grod than Truth. And if every page of these chapters does not proclaim to the reader, that the only means for the realisation of Truth is Ahimsa, I shall deem all my pains in writing these chapters to have been in vain. And, even though my efforts in this behalf may prove fruitless, let the readers know that the vehicle, not the great principle, is at fault. After all, however sincere my strivings after Ahimsa may have been, they have still been imperfect and inadequate. The little fleeting glimpses, therefore, that I have been able to have of Truth can hardly convey an idea of the indescrib¬ able lustre of Truth, a million times more
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intense than that of the sun we daily see with our eyes. In fact what I have caught is only the faintest glimmer of that mighty effulgence. But this much I can say with assurance, as a result of all my experiments, that a perfect vision of Truth can only follow a complete realisation of Ahimsa.
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face one must be able to love the meanest of creation as oneself. And a man who aspires after that cannot afford to keep out of any field of life. That is why my devotion to Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those, who say that religion has nothing to do with politics, do not know what religion means.
Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream; Grod can never be realised
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by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one’s surroundings.
But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know, that I have not in me as yet that triple purity, in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world’s praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. Ever since my return to India I have had experiences of the dormant passions lying hidden within me. The knowledge of them has made me feel humiliated but not defeated. The
FAREWELL
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experiences and experiments have sus¬ tained me, and given me great joy. But I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as one does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
In bidding farewell to the reader, for the time being at any rate, I ask him to join with me in prayer to the God of Truth, that He may grant me the boon of Ahimsa in mind, word and deed.
THE END
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INDEX
INDEX
^BDUL Bari Saheb, Maulana, 532, 575.
Abdulla Sheth, 84, 85.
Abdur Rahman, Dr., 445.
Abdur Rahman Street, 499.
Abul Kalam Azad, Maulana, 578.
Aden, 256.
Adenwallas, 256.
Agrarian Act, 406.
Ahimsa, 53, 54; 227 ff.; 375, 384; in Satyagraha Ashram, 416-18; 446; 456, 476; 480, 590 ff.
Ahmedabad, 334, 335, 336, 341, 408, 409, 414, 415, 418, 427, 428, 468, 477, 503, 504, 505, 507,508, 517, 519, 520.
Ajmalkhan, Hakim Saheb, 445, 488, 529, 531, 575, 588.
Akho, a Gujarati poet, 272.
Alexander, Police Superintendent of Durban, helps the author to get permit to enter the Transvaal, 7.
Ali Brothers, 444, 446, 447, 453, 458, 540, 543, 575.
Aligadh College, 447.
Allahabad, 575.
Allinson, Dr., 248, 249, 251.
Ambalal Sarabhai, Sjt., 411, 423, 427, 468.
Amritsar, 489, 494, 503, 504, 515, 539, 549.
Anasuyabai, Shrimati, 408, 411, 412, 421, 422, 424, 430, 470, 479, 498, 505.
Andrews, Mr. C. F., 79, 282, 301,445, 449, 453, 523.
Ansari, Dr., 445.
Anugrahababu, 391.
Aparigraha, 56.
Arabic, 196.
Arms Act, 457.
Asaf Ali, Mr., 529.
Asansol station, 307.
Asiatic department created, 5; loots Indians who applied to it for passes, 7; excludes the author from the Indian deputation, 10 ff.; 19; its officers tried for corruption but acquitted, 49 ff.
Ayurveda, 469.
gADRI, 34, 35, 84.
Bagasra, 297.
Baker, Colonel, 225.
Banerji, Sir Gurudas, 337.
Banerji, Sir Surendranath, 394.
Banker, Sjt. Shankarlal, 412, 430, 473, 477, 479, 488, 517, 518.
Bar, the, in South Africa, the author’s reminiscences of, 257 ff.
Bardoli, 442.
Baroda State, 299, 561.
Basu, Babu Bhupendranath, 315,358,
Besant, Dr., 441, 458, 579.
Bettiah, 370, 409.
Bhitiharva, 401.
Bihar, 84, 356, 359, 363, 364, 365, 366, 393, 403, 404, 486.
Boer War, 65, 112, 146, 228, 239.
* Bombay Chronical,’ the, 516, 517, 518, 519.
598
INDEX
Bombay, 19, 256, 272, 283, 286, 291, 361, 386, 394, 434, 479, 486, 488, 489, 512, 517, 563, 565, 577.
Booth, Dr., 145.
Bowring, Mr., Inspector of Police, 496, 501, 503.
Brahmachari, 150, 171, 173.
Brahmacharya, 56, 59, 131, 147 ff.; 176, 177, 180, 183.
Brelvi, Mr., 517.
Broach, the auther presides at the Educational Conference, 559.
Burdwan, 304, 309.
Buddha, Gautama, 178.
CALCUTTA, 178, 245, 272, 315, 318, 323, 334, 350, 352, 354, 358, 445, 447, 537, 577, 579, 582, 583.
Cantlie, Dr., 224.
Cape Comorin, 4.
Capetown, 4,
Cassim bazaar, Maharaja of, 354.
Cawnpore, 357.
Ceylon, 5, 11.
Chamberlain, Mr., visits South Africa, 3; gives cold shoulder to the Indian deputation, 3; 4, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
Champaran, redress for the griev¬ ances of the peasants in, 355 ff.; 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 375, 377, 381, 383, 384, 385, 386, 401, 402, 409, 410, 414, 433, 462.
Charaka, 46.
Chelmsford, Lord, Viceroy, 296, 348, 444, 449; author’s letter to, 457 ff.
Chhotalal, 394.
Choithram, Dr., 362.
Chowdhari, Pandit Bambhaj Dutt, 523, 524.
Chowpati, 489, 504.
Civil Disobedience, 380, 502, 503, 509, 511, 522.
Congress, at Amritsar, 540 ff.; constitution for — framed, 552-54; at Calcutta, 577 ff.; at Nagpur, 583 ff.
Congress Inquiry into Punjab Dyerism, 529, 550.
Congress-League Scheme, 459.
4 Coolies/ Indians named as — in South Africa, 80.
Corporal punishment, the author opposed to, 204-05.
Corps, Ambulance, 146, 149 , 234, 238, 239, 240, 241.
Cow protection, 409-11.
Cow with five feet, 321.
Crewe, Lord, 224.
‘Critic,’ the, 103, 122.
‘ Current Thought,’ the 155.
[)ALAL, Dr , 474, 477.
Danibehn, 340.
Darbhanga, 364.
Das, Deshabandhu C. B., 526, 542, 544, 545, 547, 550, 553, 554, 579, 580, 583, 588.
Deck passengers, 316.
Delhi, 296, 352, 354, 444, 449, 452, 456, 488-89, 494, 495, 529, 537.
Desai, Mahadev, 394, 430, 484, 495, 578.
Desai, Pragji, 190.
Desai, Mrs. Durga, 395.
Desai, Sjt. Gunvantrai, nurses plague patients, 89.
Desai, Sjt. Jivanlal, 335.
Desai, Valji Govindji, 155.
Desai, Sjt. Yashvantprasad, 563.
Deshpande, Sjt. Gangadharrao, 394,
Deshpande, Sjt. Kesha vrao, 299,300.
INDEX
Dev, Dr., 289, 318, 319, 396, 399.
Devaas, 394.
Dharanidhar Prasad, Babu, 371, 393,
Dhruva, Sjt. Anandshankar, 424.
Dick, Miss, 68, 69 73.
Dietetics, the author’s experiments in, 43 ff ; milk to be avoided, 45;
fficnlty of avoiding it, 45 ff.; further experiments in, 157 ff.; fasting, 157 ff.; 182 ff.; the author gives up tea and resolves to finish last meal before sunset, 172; gives up salt and pulses, 172 ff.; gives up milk, 177 ff.; the author takes goat’s milk, 474-77.
Dilshad Begam, 350.
Doke, Rev. Joseph, 94.
Dudabhai, 340.
Durban, 4, 7, 10, 37, 56, 64, 66, 96, 106, 111, 112, 115, 120, 133, 142, 144, 164, 168, 256.
Dvivedi, Sjt. M. N., 25.
]7 DU CATION, author’s experiments in and views on, 188-215.
Ekadashi, 158, 182, 183,
PASTING, from a religious stand¬ point, 157 ff.; 182 ff.; as penance, 210 ff.; 219-20; in connection with the Ahmedabad mill-hands’ strike, 419-427; in connection with the Rowlatt Act Satyagraha, 486.
Fort, Bombay, 501.
QAIT, Sir Edward, the Lieutenant Governor of Bihar, 404, 405, 406.
Gallwey, Colonel, 239.
Gandhi, Chhaganlal, 110, 149, 329.
Gandhi, Maganlal, foremost among the author’s co-workers, 113, 121, 149, 154, 301, 304, 307, 308,
599
309, 318, 319, 341, 342, 416, 422, 556, 563.
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, the author, encounters difficulty in going from Natal to the Trans¬ vaal, 4 ff.; excluded from the Indian deputation by the Asiatic department, 10 ff.; decides to remain in the Transvaal in order to fight the Asiatic department, 17; enrolled in the Transvaal Supreme Court, 18; his views on life insurance, 19 ff.; comes in contact with Theosophists, 22; reads Hindu religious books including the Bhagavad Gita with them, 25; tries to learn the Gita by heart during morning ablutions, 26; the Gita becomes an infallible guide of conduct for him, 27; surrenders his insurance policy and determines to devote himself entirely to service of humanity, 28; his renunciation hurts his brother who however comes round at last, 29 ff .; helps a vegetarian restaurant in Johan¬ nesburg, 32,33; lends money to the restaurant and loses it, 33, 34; warned by a friend against such ventures, 34 ff.; his experiments in earth and water treatment, 39 ff.;believes,that man’s diet should consist of fruits and nuts, but obliged to take milk as he could not otherwise rebuild a shattered constitution, 45 ff.; confident that restraint in diet essential to a seeker, 47; gets corrupt officers to be prosecuted, 49 ff.; his views on ‘ Ahimsa, ’ 53,54;
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treats clerks as members of the family, 56; makes his wifo clean an untouchable clerk’s pot, and is enraged with her for her reluctance, 56 £f.; writes as the spirit prompts him, 61 ff.; receives English friends as members of the family, 65 ;his friendly relations with Miss Dick, 68, 69; with Miss Schlesin, 70-72; starts e Indian Opinion, ’ 73; and is trained in self-restraint therethrough, 76; gives legal advice to the Johan¬ nesburg Indians in land acquisi¬ tion cases, 82 ff.; nurses plague patients, 87 ff.; puts plague patients under the earth treat¬ ment, 92; meets Mr. Albert West, 94; induces him to take charge of the ‘ Indian Opinion ’ press, 96; meets Mr. Polak, 103;his credulity, 105; deeply impressed by Raskin’s ‘Unto this Last ’ 106 ff.; cures his son’s broken arm by earth treatment, 125 ff.; acts as the best man at Polak’ s wedding, 129- 30; grinds flour and prepares bread at home, 134; teaches his sons scavenging and nursing, but neglects their literary education, 135 ff.; insists upon talking to his children in Gujarati, 138-39; forms an Indian Ambulance Corps during the Zulu ‘rebellion,’ 141 ff.; his views on the importance of ‘ brahmacharya,’ 147 ff.; takes the vow of ‘ brahmacharya ’ for life, 149 ff.; his further experi¬ ments in dietetics, 157 ff.; cares his wife by hydropathic treat¬ ment, 163 ff.; gives up salt and
pulses in order to support his wife in carrying out her resolve, 172 ff.; gives up milk, 177 ff.; takes to fruit diet, 180; takes to fasting, 182 ff.; teaches children in Tolstoy Farm, 188 ff.; does not believe in text-books, 198; his views on spiritual training, 200 ff.; opposed to corporal punishment, 204-05; the problem of bad boys, 206 ff.; fasts as a penance for the lapse of his pupils, 209 ff.; leaves South Africa for England, 216; forms an Indian Volunteer Corps at the beginning of the Great War, 221 ff.; defends his participation in the War, 227 ff.; offers a miniature Satyagraha in connection with the Indian Volunteer Corps, 233 ff ; asked by Gokhale to take milk for health but respect¬ fully declines, 243 ff ; suffers from pleurisy, 248 ff .; leaves England for India, 252; the voyage home, 253 ff.; his reminiscences of the bar in South Africa, 258 ff.; never takes false cases or coaches witnesses, 259; admission of error against client’s interests, 259 ff.; asks magistrate to dismiss the case of his client who was subsequently discovered to have brought him a false case, 265; his clients become co-workers, 269; saves Parsi Rustomji from a bad scrape, 271 ff.; makes a Gujarati speech where others spoke in English, 284; meets Lord Willing- don, 286-87; with Gokhale in Poona, 287 ff ; gets the Viramgam Customs Cordon removed, 291 ff.;
• INDEX
601
his experiences of travelling third class, 306 ff 318; 352-53; decides not to join the Servants of India Society, 311 ff.; attends the Kumbha Mela, 318 ff.; does scavenging there, 319; troubled by ‘ darshan ’seekers, 320; limits himself to five articles of diet, 323; meets Shraddhanandji, 325; how he discarded his ‘ shikha ’ and sacred thread, 326 ff; decides to re-grow the ‘shikha,’ 331; at Lakshman Jhula, 332; founds the Satyagraha Ashram, in Ahmeda- bad, 334; admits untouchables to the Satyagraha Ashram, 339; receives much needed monetary help from an unexpected quarter, 341; gets indentured emigration abolished, 346 ff.; troubled by C.I. D,, 350-51; obtains redress for Champaran peasants, 355 ff.; dis¬ obeys order to leave Champaran, 370 ff ; case against him with¬ drawn, 377 ff.; conducts an inquiry in Champaran, 384 ff.; opens village schools there, and tries to improve village sanitation, and provide medical relief, 393 ff.; appointed by Government member of Inquiry Committee which found in favour of the ryots, 404-06; leads mill-hands’ strike in Ahmeda- bad, 411-13; removes Satyagraha Ashram to Sabarmati, 415 ff.; fasts in connection with mill-hand’s strike, 419-27; participates in the War Conference, 444 ff.; his interest in Hindu Muslim unity and the Khilafat, 444-48; his letter to the Viceroy in con¬
nection with the War Conference, 452-54; 457-63; conducts a recruit¬ ing campaign, 455 ff.; his serious illness, 465 ff.; benefited by Kelkar’s treatment, 471-72; agrees to take goat’s milk, 474-77; offers Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Bills, 477 ff.; meets Rajagopala- chari, 484; calls upon the country to observe a hartal and fast as protest against the Rowlatt Act, 486; sells proscribed literature, 491 ff.; administers the Swadeshi vow, 494; prevented from going to Delhi and brought to Bombay, 494 ff.; goes to Ahmedabad where riots had taken place, and addresses meeting, 505-06; suspends Satyagraha, 507; his ‘ Himalayan miscalcula¬ tion,’ 508 ff.; takes up the editorship of ' Young India, ’ 517; and of ‘ Navajivan ’ 518;
visits the Punjab, 521 ff.; works on and drafts report of Congress Inquiry Committee as regards the Punjab disturbances, 526-28; opposes the mixing-up of cow protection with the Khilafat, 529-33; opposes the boycott of British goods, 534; hits upon non- co-operation, 536-39; attends the Amritsar Congress and gets passed a resolution accepting the Montford reforms, 540 ff.; collects a fund for the Jalianwala Bagh Memorial, 550-51; frames constitu¬ tion for the Congress, 552-54; his search for the spinning wheel, 558 ff.; adopts Khadi for his dress, 565; his conversation with a mill-
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owner about Swadeshi, 568 ff.; moves non-co-operation resolution at the Gujarat Political Con¬ ference, 576; gets passed the non- co-operation resolution at the Calcutta special Congress, 577 ff; gets non-co-operation resolution and draft constitution passed at the Nagpur Congress, 583 ff.; bids farewell to the reader, 588 ff.
Gandhi, Mrs. Kasturbai,the author’s wife, her matchless endurance, 56 ff.; her courage, 163 ff; 173, 175, 177,216,394,395, 400, 401, 465,474.
Gandhi, Ramdas, the author’s son, the author cures his broken arm by earth treatment, 125-27; 169, 315.
Ganganath Yidyalaya, 299.
Ganges, the, 326, 331, 332, 359, 374.
Gaya Babu, 363, 364.
Gidvani, Acharya, 494.
Gita, Bhagavad, 25, 26, 27, 36, 187, 470.
Godhra Conference, 560.
Godfrey, Dr. William, treats plague patients, 88, 90, 92.
Godfrey, Mr. George, leads the Indian deputation to Mr. Chamber- lain, 16.
Gokhale, G. K., 72, 216, 221, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 256, 285,286, 287, 288, 304, 305, 311, 313, 552.
Gokhale, Mrs. Avantikabai, 394, 395, 564.
Gorakh Prasad, Babu, 371, 372, 385.
Govindswami, 110.
Grant Medical College, 471.
Griffith, Mr., 500, 501, 502.
‘ Guide to Health,’ A, 44.
Gujarat, 289, 371, 441, 442, 456, 561, 566.
Gujarati, 43, 74, 79, 107, 138, 153, 154, 195, 196, 395, 480, 518, 578.
Gujaratis, 56, 142, 284, 433, 559.
Gujarat Sabha, 429.
Gurukul, Kangri, 282, 318, 325, 326.
H^Q, Maulana Mazharul, 361, 392.
Hardinge, Lord, Viceroy, 253, 347.
Hardvar, 318, 322, 325, 331, 333, 334.
Harihar Sharma, Anna, 300.
Harilal, 136.
Harkishanlal, Lala, 540, 545.
Hartal, against the Rowlatt Act, 486-87; in Delhi, 488-89, in Bombay, 491 ff.
Hasrat Mohani, Maulana, 533, 534, 536, 537, 538.
Heycock, Mr., the Collector of Motihari 373, 380.
Himalayas, 374, 570.
Himsa, 228, 229.
Hindi-Hindustani, 74, 195, 367, 384, 395, 409, 451, 452, 537, 538, 541, 578.
‘Hind Swaraj,’ 227, 305, proscribed by the Government, copies of — sold as Satyagraha, 491, 555.
Hindu, 55, 56, 60, 79, 80, 167, 183, 184, 185, 188, 195, 329, 344, 410, 445, 446, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 551, 586.
Hinduism, 329-330, 586.
Hindu Muslim unity, 444-48, 490.
Hindu University, 542.
Hobhouse, Miss Emily, 235.
Horniman, Mr., 479, 516.
Hrishikesh, 326, 330, 331.
Hunter Committee, 523, 525, 526, 528.
Hunter, SirW.W., 354.
Hyderabad, 362,
INDEX
IMPERIAL Citizenship Associa¬ tion, 348.
Indentured emigration abolished, 346 ff.
Indian Ambulance Crops, 141.
‘ Indian Opinion, ’ 43, 44; started, 72; 73, 74, 75; the author’s work upon it a training in self-restraint, 76; Satyagraha impossible with¬ out, 76; 77, 104; removed to Phoenix, 109 ff , first issue of — from Phoenix, 114 ff.; 120, 154,519.
Indians in South Africa, wait upon Mr. Chamberlain in deputation, 3, 16; made to live in locations, 80 ff.; form an Ambulance Corps during the Zulu ‘ rebellion, ’ 141 ff.; and nurse the Zulus, 143 ff.;
Ireland, Rev., 453.
Iyengar, Sjt. Kasturi Ranga, 483- 84-85.
JAGADANANDBABU 301.
Jairamsing, Sjt., 84.
J alianwala Bagh, 515, 522, 550, 551 .
Janaka, King, 354.
Janakdharibabu, 391.
Janmashtami, 158,
Jayakar, Sjt. M. R., 526.
Jerajani, Sjt. Vithaldas, 490,493.
Jeramdas, Sjt., 64, 546, 547.
Jews, 55,79, 80, 129.
Jhaveri, Kalidas, 559.
Jhaveri, Revashankar, 28; 498, 565.
Jinnah, Mr., 284, 545, 546, 586.
Johannesburg, 18,32,37, 49, 52, 65, 66, 67, 81, 82, 87, 88, 89, 93, 100, 101, 106, 121, 123, 129, 133, 136,
140, 141, 153, 164, 189, 207, 211, 268.
Johannesburg Municipality, negle¬ cts the Indian location, 81; sets
603
fire to it after an outbreak of plague, 100.
KAITHI, 367.
Kalelkar, Kakasaheb, 299, 300.
Kalibabu, 301.
Kallenbach, Hermann, 70, 160, 178, 179, 182, 184, 190, 192, 206, 208, 211, 212, 216, 217, 218, 243, 244, 246, 253, 254.
Kalyan, 309.
Kalyandas, nurses plague patients, 89.
Kamdar, Shrimati Ramibai, 564,
Kanuga, Dr., 467, 470.
Karachi, 350, 354,
Kathiawad, 327.
Kathlal, 432.
Kaul, Sjt., of Servants of India Society, 310.
Kekobad Kavasji Dinshaw, Mr., 256.
Kelkar, Sjt. f Ice Doctor,’ treats the author, 471-72.
Kelkar, Sjt.N. C., 554.
Khadi, 527, 534, 536, the birth of, 555 ff.; 563, 564, 586, 587; — move¬ ment, 565, 568, 572, 574; manu¬ factured in the Ashram, 566.
Khan, Mr., 178.
Kheda, 45, 408, 411, 425; peasants’ Satyagraha in, 428 ff.; 454, 462, 480, 508, 511.
Khilafat, 447, 448, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 539, 543, 575, 579, 587; 577.
Khwaja, Mr , 445.
Kitchin, Mr., 66.
Kitchlu, Dr., 489, 523.
Klipspruit, 101.
Kochrab, 414, 415,
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INDEX
Kripalani, Acharya. 362, 363, 391, 392.
Kshitimohanbabu, 301.
Kumbha Mela, 315-24; 334.
Kuhne, hydropathic treatment of, 32, 38, 134; 214.
Kunzru, Pandit Hridayanath, 318.
LABOURERS in Ahmedabad, strike for an increase of wages under the authors guidance, 408- 13; the author’s fast in connection with the strike, 419-27; strike settlement, 424.
Lahore, 352, 489, 496, 524.
Lajpat Rai, Lala, 577, 580, 583, 588.
Lakshman Jhula, 325-332.
Lakshmi, 340.
Lakshmidas, Sjt., 566.
Lallubhai Samaldas, Sr. (now Sir), 348, 349.
Lathi, 566.
Leicester, 132.
London, 175, 216, 217, 219, 220, 221, 225, 243, 247, 361.
Louth (Linconshire), 96, 131.
Lucknow, 356, 357, 364.
Lyceum, 225.
MACINTYRE, Mr., 123.
Mackenzie, General, 144.
Madanjit, Sjt., starts ‘Indian Opinion’, 73; nurses plague patients, 88; 90, 96, 105, 110.
Madeira, 220.
Madras, 483, 484, 486.
Maffey, Mr. (now Sir John), 348, 449.
Mahomed Ali, Maulana, 446.
Majmundar, Gangabehn, 559, 561, 562, 563, 566.
Malaviyaji, Pandit Madanmohan, 346, 348, 379, 382, 524, 525, 526,
542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 550, 551, 579, 586.
Malkani, Professor, 362, 363.
Manchester, 38.
Maneklal, nurses plague patients, 89.
Manilal, 169.
Manu, 169
Manusmriti, 169.
Marwadis, 409, 410.
Matheran, 473
Mathura, 494, 496.
Mehta, Dr. Jivraj, 219, 222, 244, 246, 252, 254.
Mehta, Dr.P. J., 37, 222, 315, 317. 386.
‘ Marcury ’ press, 112.
Mogalsarai, 308.
Montagu, Mr., 543.
Motihari, 370, 371, 372, 385.
Motilal, tailor and public worker of Wadhvan, 292,293.
Munshiramji, Mahatma, see Shraddhanadji.
Muzaffarpur, 362.
NADIAD, 454, 465, 466, 468, 505, 508.
Nagenbabu, 301, 302.
Nagpur Congress, Deshabandhu and Lalaji accept non-co-operation at, 580-583; 584.
Naidu, Shrimati Sarojini, 225, 479, 490, 492.
Natal, 4, 17, 67, 106, 140, 141, 144,267.
National Liberal Club, 246.
Natrajan, Sr ,348,
£ Navajivan,’ 76, 155, 518, 519, 520.
Nazar, Sjt. Mansukhlal, 74, 120.
Negroes, 5, 87.
Nehru, Pandit Motilalji, 525, 526, 541, 544, 550, 579, 580.
INDEX
605
Nepal, 374.
Nepalbabu. 301.
Netley Hospital, 241, 242, 252.
‘ No Breakfast Association,’ 38.
Non-co-operation, 538, 539, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 584, 587, passed at Gujarat Provincial Conference, 577.
Non-violence, 514, 575, 578.
O’ DWYER, Sir Michael, 496, 522. Oxford, 234,
palanpur, 556.
Pal, Sjt. Bipin Chandra, 547.
Palwal 495, 496.
Panchama, 56, 57.
Pandya Mohanlal, 408, 429, the ‘ onion thief.’ 433 ff.
Parekh, Sir Gokuldas Kahandas,
429.
Parikh, Mrs. Manibehn, 395.
Parikh, Narahari, 394.
Parikh, Shankarlal, 408, 429, 432, 436.
Paris, 221.
Parsis, 55, 80, 184, 188.
Partition, the, 569.
Patel, Sjt. Vallabhbhai, 412, 422,
430, 442, 454, 466, 468, 470, 477, 479, 577.
Patel, Sjt. Yithalbhai, 429.
Pathan, 142.
Patidars, 425, 428, 434, 439, 442- Patna, 358, 359, 361, 379. Patvardhan, Appa, 300.
Patwardhan, 581.
Pavitra ekadashi, 565.
Pearson 301, 302, 303.
Peasants, their grievances redressed in Champaran, 355 ff.; their
poverty, 400; their Satyagraha in Kheda, 428 ff .
Petit, Mr. Jehangir, 283, 348.
Petit, Mrs. Jaiji, 350.
Phadke, Mama, 300.
Phirozeshah, Sir, 283.
Phoenix Settlement, 109 ff.; first issue of ‘ Indian Opinion ’ from 114 ff.; 119 ff.; 211, 212, 281, 282, 417.
Phooka, a process of extracting milk, 474.
Phulchand, Sjt., 466.
Plague in Johannesburg, 87 ff.
Poet, the (Ravindranath), 302.
Polak, Mr. Henry, 94, the author meets, 103; joins Phoenix Settle¬ ment, 121 ff. 122; 123; his
marriage, 128 ff.; qualifies as attorney, 134, 138, 141, 142, 227, 231.
Polak, Mrs., 128, 129, 130, 134.
Poona, 285, 287, 291, 304, 308, 310, 311, 312, 314.
Pope’s Tamil handbook, 195.
Porbandar 291.
Pradosba, 183, 184, 186.
Pratt, Mr., the Commissioner, N. D., 505.
Pretoria, 4, 7, 8, 18.
Pundarik, 394.
Punjab, the, 495, 497, 503, 504, 514, 515, 516; 518, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 533, 541, 543* 579.
Punjabhai Hirachand, Sjt., 415.
Puri, 359, 364.
Pydhuni, 498, 499.
QURESHI, Mr. Shuaib, 445.
606
INDEX
RAJAGOPALACHARI, 483, 484, 486, 487.
Rajayoga, M. N. Dvivedi's, 25. Rajendra Prasad, Babu, 359, 360, 364, 384, 391.
Rajkot, 291, 294, 299, 334. Ramadevji, A chary a, 325, 326. Ramanama, 151, 214.
Ramanbhai, Sir, 507.
Ramayan, 215.
Ramji, Sjt., 566.
Ramnavmiprasad, 363, 391.
Ramzan, 183, 184, 185, 186. Rangoon, 315, 316, 317, 318, 323, 386.
Raychandbhai, 177.
Recruiting campaign, 451 ff.
Red Sea, 254.
Reed, Dr. Stanley, 348, 349.
‘ Return to Nature,’ Just’s, 39, 41. Ritch, Mr., 18, 22, 73, 89, 122. Robert, Lady Cecilia., 250, 251.
Roberts, Mr., Under-Secretary of State for India, 241, 252, 253, Rowlatt Act, 47.
Rowlatt Bills, 473; Satyagraha against, 477 ff., 480, 483, 485.
Rowlatt Committee, 477, 478.
Rudra, Principal Sushil Kumar, 282, 445, 453.
Ruskin, his influence on the author, 106 ff., 128, 133.
Rustomji, Parsi, 111, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276.
gABARMATI, 412, 417, 466, 555.
Sanskrit, 195, 196.
Santoshbabu, 301.
Saharanpur, 318.
Salem, 484.
Saraladevi , Shrimati, Sheth Ambalal’ s wife, 424.
Sarala Devi, Shrimati, Pt. Rambhaj Dutt’s wife, 524.
‘Sarvodaya,’ 107; procribed by the Government and sold as Satya¬ graha, 491.
Satyagraha Ashram, founded in Ahmedabad, 334 ff ; rules for, 337; untouchables admitted into, 339 ff.; removed to Sabarmati, 414 ff.; non-killing in, 417-18; 344, 346,358, 414, 415, 422, 468, 470, 478, 506, 555, 558, 559, 563, 566.
Satyagraha, the birth of, 153, ff.; distinguished from passive resist¬ ance, 153-54, in connection with the Indian Volunteer Corps, 233 ff.; potential — against the Viramgam Customs, 291 ff.; in Champaran, 370 ff ; in Kheda, 428 ff; against the Rowlatt Bills, 477 ff.; the fitness for, 509 ff.; 26, 53, 72, 76, 84, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157,
160, 163, 175, 178, 188, 211, 216, 230, 235, 238 283, 297, 298, 304, 305, 347, 354, 430, 432, 433, 434, 435, 437 - 438, 440, 441, 442 , 443, 475, 479, 430, 482, 486, 504, 507, 511, 512, 518, 520.
‘Satyagraha in South Africa,’ com¬ panion volume to this, being an account of the author’s life 1906-14, 154, 155-56, 354.
Satyagraha Sabha, 479, 512.
Satyagrahi, 184, 210, 221, 235, 416, 422, 431, 434 , 435, 439, 441, 504, 509, 510, 512.
Satyapal, Dr , 489, 523.
Sawai Madhopur, 496.
INDEX 607
Schlesin, Miss, 70, her spirit of sacrifice, industry, bravery and honesty, 71, 72; Gokhale’s esti¬ mate of her, 72.
Sen, Sjt. I. B., 554.
Servants of India Society, 287, 311, 318, 396.
Shamhhubabu, 391.
Shantiniketan, 282, 289,
299ff.; 319.
Sharadbabu, 301
Shastras, 469.
Shastri, Chintaman, 300.
Shastri, Mr. V. S. S., 79, 313, 481-2.
Shaukat Ali, Maulana, 577, 578.
Shikha, the author’s, 326-31.
Shivji, Sjt., 565.
Shraddhanandji, Swami, the author meets, 325; 282, 318, 334, 495, 525, 529, 531, 541, 588; invited to speak in the Juma Masjid, 488-89.
Shrinagar, 4.
Shukla, Rajkumar 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 362, 363, 370, 371, 375.
Sikhs, 551.
Simla, 453
Sindh, 486.
Sindhi, 391.
Sinha, Lord, 542.
Sly, Sir Prank, Chairman of Bihar Inquiry Committee, 405.
Smuts-Gandhi settlement of 1914, 346.
Snell’s ‘ Equity ’, 28.
Sobani, Mr. Umar, 477, 498, 517, 518, 562, 568.
Soman, Babasaheb, 394, 401.
Sorabji AaajaDia, Mr., 221, 234, 235, 236.
South Africa, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 20, 21 22, 30, 34, 35, 50, 74, 77, 79,’ 80, 82, 85, 89, 96, 125, 127, 154, 155, 156, 160, 176, 178, 188, 193, 196, 216, 222, 227, 240, 254, 255, 258, 268, 269, 282, 287, 291, 320,’ 328, 336, 343, 420, 445, 446 551 555.
Sparks, Col., 144.
Suez Canal, 255.
Svargashram, 332.
Swadeshi, vow, 490, 534; — yarn, 557; —movement, 568, 569, 570, 571. ’
Swami Anand, 64, 300.
Swaraj, 554, 555, 580, 585, 586.
'J’ALYALKARi, Dr , 471.
Tamil, 74, 195, 196.
Tamils, Tamilians, 56, 197, 483.
Tata, Lady, 350.
Tea, given up by the author, 172.
Telugus, 483.
Thakkar, Sjt. Amritlal, also Thak- kar Bapa, 339, 340, 428.
Thakurdvar, 490.
Theosophists, the author comes in contact with, 22, 24 ff., 33, 65, 123.
Theosophical Society, 22.
Third class passengers, 294-95; their woes, 306 ff.; 318, 352-53.
Tilak, Lokamanya, 453, 458, 542, 545, 547, 550, 553, 554, 580, 581.
Tinkathia, 355, 366, 406.
Tirhut, Division in Bihar, 363, 370.
Tolstoy Farm, 179, 183-84, 185, 186, 188, 189, 191, 193, 194, 200, 203,
' 20 6; 210, 417.
608
INDEX
Transvaal, the, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 17, 19, 49, 51, 67, 70, 129, 267, 268.
Trappist, monastery, 192.
Trivedi, Uttamlal, 284.
Truth, 218, 219, 232, 345, 375, 384, 590, 591.
Tyeb Haji Khanmahomed, Sheth, 12.
Tyebji, Sjt. Abhas, 526, 577.
U^ITY, Hindu Muslim, 586, 587.
‘Unto this Last,’ Ruskin’s, deeply impresses the author, 106-09:
Untouchables, admitted into the Ashram, 339 ff.
Untouchability, resolution about the removal of, passed by the Nagpur Congress, 586, 587.
Urdu, 195, 197, 367, 537, 538, 578.
VAIDYANATHDHAM, 334.
Yaishampayan, Mrs. Anandibai, 394, 395.
Yaishnava, 182, 183, 565.
Yasumatibehn, Shrimati, 564,
Yegetarianism, the author’s sacri¬ fice to, 32 ff.
Yijapur, 561, 563, 664.
Yijayaraghavachari, Sjt. C., 485, 579, 584.
Yindhyababu, 391.
Yiramgam, 505; —Customs Cordon, 292; 294, 296, 297.
Yrajakishore Prasad, Babu, 356, 357, 364, 365, 366, 367, 372, 382, 385, 386, 391.
WAD H WAN, 292, 294.
War, 220, 221, 222, 224; the anther defends his participation in, 227 ff.; 230, 231, 233, 243, 252, 444; 527.
War Conference, 444, 449, 458.
West, Mr. Albert, author meets, 94; takes charge of the ‘ Indian Opinion ’ press, 96*97; 103, his marriage, 131-32; 95, 104, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114,
115, 116, 117, 118, 149, 168.
West, Mrs., 132.
Willingdon, Lord, Governor of Bombay, 287, 296.
Wylie, Col., 144.
YAJNIK, Sjt. Indulal, 430, 518, 519.
Yeravda, 155.
Yogasutra, Patanjali’s, 25.
‘Young India,’ 76, 514,518, 519, 520.
ZULU ‘rebellion,’ the author forms an Indian Ambulance Corps during, 140 ff.
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