Gandhi Autobiography

In consultation with my co-workers I had decided that nothing should be done in the name of the Congress. What we wanted was wor ...

this conflict of duties I could only throw the responsibility of removing me from them on the Administration. I am fully conscio ...

but merely for their information. I had seen that, even where the end might be political, but where the cause was non-political, ...

were followed by an army of companions who filled the compound and garden to overflowing. The efforts of my companions to save m ...

way in which he associated with us made us feel that he was one of us, though his fashionable habit gave a stranger a different ...

Chapter 142 PENETRATING THE VILLAGES As far as was possible we placed each school in charge of one man and one woman. These volu ...

But I must confess with regret that my hope of putting this constructive work on a permanent footing was not fulfilled. The volu ...

The #tinkathia# system which had been in existence for about a century was thus abolished and with it the planters' #raj# came t ...

Whilst the Kheda peasants' question was still being discussed, I had already taken up the question of the mill-hands in Ahmedaba ...

The plague, I felt, was sufficient notice to quit Kochrab. Sjt. Punjabhai Hirachand, a merchant in Ahmedabad, had come in close ...

But at last they began to show signs of flagging. Just as physical weakness in men manifests itself in irascibility, their attit ...

attached to me with the affection of a blood-sister, and I could not bear to see her anguish on account of my action. Anasuyabhe ...

Chapter 147 THE KHEDA SATYAGRAHA No breathing time was, however, in store for me. Hardly was the Ahmedabad mill-hands' strike ov ...

are able to pay still withhold payment is that, if they pay up, the poorer ryots may in a panic sell their chattels or incur deb ...

While these things were going on, one of Sjt. Shankarlal Parikh's tenants paid up the assessment in respect of his land. This cr ...

but hardly any got the benefit of it. It was the people's right to determine who was poor, but they could not exercise it. I was ...

never needed any pressure to go with them, wherever they took me, in order to get into intimate touch with them. I had realized ...

connection, would you not admit that it is the duty of every Indian citizen to help the Empire in the hour of its need? I too ha ...

he was accustomed to travelling intermediate. This he did though it was a night journey. His simplicity and his straight and pla ...

perhaps the strongest was that Lokamanya Tilak, Mrs. Besant and the Ali Brothers, whom I regard as among the most powerful leade ...