40 “Anger is short madness”: Ibid., p. 167.
41 “Why do [the authorities] tolerate”: Ibid., p. 184.
42 “They are all mine”: Ibid., p. 480.
43 “These days, who listens to me?”: Ibid., p. 237.
44 “Ever since I came to India”: Ibid., p. 275. See also p. 524.
45 “What sin must I”: Ibid., p. 525.
46 “On the surface things”: Ibid., p. 483.
47 “Misdeeds of the Hindus”: Ibid., vol. 90, p. 228.
48 No single catastrophe: Some say it was his fifteenth or sixteenth fast. Narayan Desai makes it thirty. Narayan Desai, My Life Is My Message, vol. 4, Svarpan, pp. 472–73.
49 Mountbatten, now the governor-general: Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi, p. 612; Suhrawardy, Memoirs, p. 34; Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 462; CWMG, vol. 96, p. 568.
50 “For some time my helplessness”: Manubehn Gandhi, Last Glimpses of Bapu, p. 108.
51 “Gandhiji is not prepared”: Azad, India Wins Freedom, p. 236.
52 “All his life he had stood”: M. K. Gandhi, Delhi Diary, p. 336.
53 By his assassin’s own testimony: Malgonkar, Men Who Killed Gandhi, p. 344; Tushar A. Gandhi, “Let’s Kill Gandhi!” p. 58.
54 Patel’s absence from Delhi: The home minister left Delhi to travel to Gandhi’s native Kathiawad region to bring the holdout princely states there into the Indian Union, a mission in which Gandhi had a personal interest. But he was also stung by the decision of the cabinet, under the pressure of Gandhi’s fast, to release the reserves he had only just frozen. Before leaving Delhi, he wrote to Gandhi asking that he be allowed to resign. Rajmohan Gandhi, Patel, pp. 462–63.
55 Of the unfreezing of the assets: Malgonkar, Men Who Killed Gandhi, p. 341, reproduction of paragraph 126 of Godse’s statement.
56 A few days earlier: Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase, vol. 2, p. 711.
57 “Listen! Listen!”: Tendulkar, Mahatma, vol. 8, p. 273.
58 “God will keep me alive”: Manubehn Gandhi, Last Glimpses of Bapu, p. 224.
59 “The rulers of the country”: Ibid., p. 225.
60 “If somebody fired”: Ibid., pp. 222, 228, 234, 298.
61 “I have seen it”: Ibid., p. 279.
62 “Our salvation”: Ibid., p. 293.
63 Immediately after that meeting: Ibid., pp. 293–97.
64 Later Pyarelal would publish: Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase, vol. 2, p. 819.
65 Never did it make its way: Narayan Desai, My Life Is My Message, vol. 4, Svarpan, p. 479.
66 On the way, walking: Manubehn Gandhi, Last Glimpses of Bapu, p. 308.
67 “There is no way”: Tushar A. Gandhi, “Let’s Kill Gandhi!” p. 780.
68 “The sound of bullets”: Manubehn Gandhi, Last Glimpses of Bapu, p. 309.
69 The killer Godse: Malgonkar, Men Who Killed Gandhi, pp. 250–51.
70 He said the last words: Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase, vol. 2, p. 861.
71 The belief that he fulfilled: See Nandy, “Final Encounter,” pp. 470–93.
72 “a certain kind of bodily sacrifice”: Gyanendra Pandey quoted in Hardiman, Gandhi in His Time and Ours, pp. 190–91.
73 “Today we must forget that we are Hindus”: CWMG, vol. 90, pp. 403–4.
74 When it comes to the Father of the Nation: Payne, Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi, pp. 598–99.
75 “Congress has now to govern”: Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Gandhi Is Gone, p. 61.
76 “What we need to consider”: Ibid., p. 60.
77 “Let no one say”: Tendulkar, Mahatma, vol. 5, p. 245.
78 “Whenever you are in doubt”: Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase, vol. 2, p. 65. The note seems never to have been published in Gandhi’s lifetime. It is reproduced in an inset following p. 288 in the final volume of Tendulkar’s eight-volume biography, first published in 1954 by the Government of India.
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