Gandhi Autobiography

expecting me, and he gave me a cordial greeting. He had a hearty laugh over the story of my experience at the hotel. 'How ever d ...

the guard will not leave you in peace in the first class and even if he does, the passengers will not.' I took my seat in a firs ...

'Thank you,' said I, 'even for accommodating me for the night. I am now more or less acquainted with the conditions here, and I ...

I went to Mr. Johnston, paid the bill and removed to the new lodgings, where I had my lunch. The landlady was good woman. She ha ...

As we came closer to each other, he began to give me books of his own choice, until my shelf was filled with them. He loaded me ...

Only he who accepts His great redemption can have eternal peace. Think what a life of restlessness is yours, and what a promise ...

practical affairs are one thing, while religion is quite another. Pure truth, they hold, is out of the question in business, one ...

In short, my stay in Pretoria enabled me to make a deep study of the social, economic and political condition of the Indians in ...

These connections were useful to me later on in my public life, and simplified much of my work. The consequences of the regulati ...

Chapter 39 PREPARATION FOR THE CASE The year's stay in Pretoria was a most valuable experience in my life. Here it was that I ha ...

naturally. I saw that the facts of Dada Abdulla's case made it very strong indeed, and that the law was bound to be persisted in ...

But his final hope was the efficacy of prayer. He had an abiding faith in prayer. It was his firm conviction that God could not ...

As Christian friends were endeavouring to convert me, even so were Musalman friends. Abdulla Sheth had kept on inducing me to st ...

'But,'said I, 'there are so many young Indians born and educated here, Do not they help you?' 'They!' exclaimed Abdulla Sheth in ...

Chapter 42 SETTLED IN NATAL Sheth Haji Muhammad Haji Dada was regarded as the foremost leader of the Indian community in Natal i ...

We all knew that this was a foregone conclusion, but the agitation had infused new life into the community and had brought home ...

'But we have now known you for some time, and are sure you would not draw anything you do not need. And if we wanted you to stay ...

away the next. Even the members in Durban had to be considerably dunned before they would pay in their subscriptions. The task o ...

People never cared to have receipts for the amounts they paid, but we always insisted on the receipts being given. Every pie was ...

necessary that the European element should predominate in the bar. If coloured people were admitted, they might gradually outnum ...