Part 17 (1/2)

CHAPTER 6: WAKING INDIA.

1He was more ”at home”: CWMG CWMG, vol. 13, p. 5.

2”teach them why India”: Ibid., p. 195.

3He makes a point: Hindustani, the spoken language of the North Indian street (and Bollywood), derives its vocabulary from both Sanskrit and Persian, through Hindi and Urdu.

4”I should have thought”: CWMG CWMG, vol. 21, p. 14.

5”In India, what we want”: Ibid., p. 73.

6”I do not believe”: Ibid., vol. 16, p. 282.

7”the malady of foot-touching”: Ibid., vol. 20, p. 511. Ibid., vol. 20, p. 511.

8”In the mere touch”: Mahadev Desai, Day-to-Day with Gandhi Day-to-Day with Gandhi, vol. 3, p. 286.

9”At night”: Fischer, Life of Mahatma Gandhi Life of Mahatma Gandhi, p. 233.

10Later, his devoted English follower: News Chronicle News Chronicle (London), Sept. 7, 1930. (London), Sept. 7, 1930.

11Gandhi's first Indian Boswell: Mahadev Desai, Day-to-Day with Gandhi Day-to-Day with Gandhi, vol. 3, p. 265.

12”We have come for the darshan”: Ibid., p. 264.

13”the people got frightened”: CWMG CWMG, vol. 19, p. 374.

14”the four pillars”: Ibid., vol. 23, p. 53.

15The throngs that turned: See Amin, ”Gandhi as Mahatma,” pp. 290340.

16”No Indian who aspires”: CWMG CWMG, vol. 14, p. 201.

17”morality in action”: Brown, Gandhi Gandhi, p. 82.

18Those Gandhi called: CWMG CWMG, vol. 14, pp. 80, 201.

19Fewer than 1 million: Ibid., vol. 14, p. 203.

20Seen that way: Ibid., vol. 13, p. 200.

21Writing to Hermann Kallenbach: Ibid., vol. 96, p. 212.

22”I am an outsider”: Nanda, Gandhi Gandhi, p. 165.

23But Gandhi had large ambitions: CWMG CWMG, vol. 13, p. 33.

24At Gokhale's death: Nanda, Three Statesmen Three Statesmen, p. 170; also Heimsath, Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform, pp. 24143.

25They took seven vows: CWMG CWMG, vol. 13, p. 91.

26About half its original intake: A thumbnail sketch of Imam Abdul Kader Salim Bawazir, originally of Johannesburg's Hamidia Mosque, is provided by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, A Frank Friends.h.i.+p A Frank Friends.h.i.+p, p. 75.

27”The object of the Ashram”: CWMG CWMG, vol. 13, p. 91.

28”I cannot imagine”: Ibid., vol. 23, p. 102.

29”an instrument for the revival”: As quoted by Rajmohan Gandhi in Eight Lives Eight Lives, p. 150.

30”I believe that Hindus”: Cited in Rajaram, Gandhi, Khilafat, and the National Movement Gandhi, Khilafat, and the National Movement, p. 8.

31Muhammad Ali, a polished: Nanda, Gandhi Gandhi, p. 202.

32”I came to observe”: Gandhi, Autobiography Autobiography, p. 349.

33Soon he drafted: Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 1, p. 162; Pyarelal and Nayar, In Gandhiji's Mirror In Gandhiji's Mirror, p. 101.

34”A humble and honest”: Narayan Desai, My Life Is My Message My Life Is My Message, vol. 2, Satyagraha Satyagraha, p. 17.

35”I have taken in a Pariah”: CWMG CWMG, vol. 96, p. 223.

36”I have told Mrs. Gandhi”: Ibid., vol. 13, pp. 12728.

37”she's making my life h.e.l.l”: Ibid., vol. 96, p. 225.

38”I had to undertake”: Ibid., p. 227.

39”I have been deserted”: Ibid., p. 225.

40Most will trickle back: Pyarelal and Nayar, In Gandhiji's Mirror In Gandhiji's Mirror, p. 102.

41”Your not being with me”: CWMG CWMG, vol. 14, p. 190.

42He speaks of moving: Ibid., vol. 13, p. 128.

43”She has beautifully resigned”: Mahadev Desai, Day-to-Day with Gandhi Day-to-Day with Gandhi, vol. 1, p. 153.

44”She cannot bring herself”: CWMG CWMG, vol. 25, p. 514.

45”wall of prejudice”: Ibid., vol. 26, p. 295.

46”This great and indelible crime”: Ibid., vol. 13, p. 233.

47”Not a chest of indigo”: Pouchepada.s.s, Champaran and Gandhi Champaran and Gandhi, p. 6.

48”We have begun to convince”: CWMG CWMG, vol. 14, p. 538.