already died on December 2; Jawaharlal did not hear of the death until
his father’s next letter.
11 MN to JN, January 18, 1906, SWMN, volume 1, p. 101.
12 By this time, under British administration, a zamindarwas a large
landowner, recognised as a proprietor by, and paying land revenues to,
the government.
13 See MN to JN, December 27, 1906, SWMN, volume 1, p. 115, and JN’s
protest in reply, February 8, 1907, SWJN, volume 1, p. 19. The word ‘oily’
has been editorially omitted from MN’s letter in SWMN, volume 1, but
appears in JN’s reply in SWJN, volume 1.
14 JN to MN, June 4, 1908, SWJN, volume 1, p. 58.
15 JN to MN, November 7, 1907, SWJN, volume 1, p. 37.
16 MN to JN, February 21, 1907, SWMN, volume 1, p. 121.
17 JN to MN, January 30, 1908, SWJN, volume 1, p. 44.
18 JN to MN, December 3, 1908, SWJN, volume 1, p. 62.
19 MN to JN, December 23, 1910, SWMN, volume 1, p. 156.
20 MN to JN, August 30, 1909, quoted in editors’ introduction, SWMN,
volume 1, p. 17.
21 JN to MN, March 18, 1909, SWJN, volume 1, p. 66.
22 JN, An Autobiography, pp 19–25. The quote is from p. 25.
23 JN to MN, October 29, 1908, SWJN, volume 1, p. 59.
24 JN to MN, June 17, 1910, from London, SWJN, volume 1, p. 74.
25 JN, An Autobiography, p. 25.
26 JN to MN, January 30, 1907, SWJN, volume 1, p. 18.
27 JN to Swarup Rani, May 7, 1909, SWJN, volume 1, p. 67, in Hindi
(editor’s translation).
28 JN to Swarup Rani, March 14, 1912, SWJN, volume1, p. 97, in Hindi
(editor’s translation).
29 JN, An Autobiography, p 26.2 THE YOUNG GANDHIAN
1 MN to JN, October 5, 1911, SWMN, volume 1, p. 164; MN to JN,
December 22, 1911, SWMN, volume 1, p. 166.
2 MN to JN, December 22, 1911, SWMN, volume 1, p. 167.
3 JN, An Autobiography, p. 31.
4 JN, An Autobiography, p. 35.
5 JN, An Autobiography, p. 37. The chapter is called ‘My wedding and an
adventure in the Himalayas’.
6 The statement is reproduced in Bipan Chandra et al., India’s Struggle for
Independence(Penguin, 1988), p. 168.
7 Quoted in Sumit Sarkar, Modern India 1885–1947(Macmillan, 1983),
p. 196.
8 Quoted in BR Nanda, The Nehrus: Motilal and Jawaharlal (Allen &
Unwin, 1962), p. 175.268 NOTES