Gandhi, Prabhudas (grandnephew), 3.1, 4.1
Gandhi, Putlibai (mother), 2.1, 2.2
Gandhi, Rajmohan (grandson), 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1
Gandhi, Raliatbehn (sister)
Gandhi, Ramdas (third son), 4.1, 12.1
Gandhi, Tushar (great-grandson)
“Gandhian,” use of term
Gandhi Ashram Trust, 11.1, 11.2
Gandhi caps
“Gandhiji’s Talisman”, 12.1, 12.2
Gandhi Raj
Gandhi Seva Sangh, 10.1, 10.2
Gandhi Smriti (Delhi)
Gandhi Square (Johannesburg)
Gandhi Trust
George V, king of England
Germany, Nazi, 3.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
Gladstone, Herbert, Lord
Glass, Philip
Godavari River
Godse, Nathuram, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
Gokhale, Gopal Krishna, 2.1, 6.1, 11.1; death of, 6.2, 6.3; as Gandhi’s mentor, 1.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.4, 6.5; Gandhi’s return to India and, 2.3, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.6; Gandhi’s third-class rail travel and, 2.4; satyagraha campaign of 1913 and, 1.2, 5.2; South African visit of, 1.3, 3.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.3, 5.4; three-pound head tax and, 4.7, 4.8, 5.5
gold mines in South Africa, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1
Gool, Fatima
Goseva Sangh
Grameen Bank
Grand National Hotel (Johannesburg)
Great Calcutta Killing (1946), 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2
Gujarat: campaign on behalf of farmers in Kheda district in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 12.1; communal violence of 2002 in, 12.2; Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour in, 9.1; Hindu extremism in, 12.3. See also Rajkot
Gumede, Josiah
Gunasiri, Vimalkitti
Gupta, Barun Das
Gurukul, 7.1, 7.2
Guruvayur temple, 9.1, 9.2
Habib, Hadji, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Hamidia Mosque (Fordsburg, Johannesburg), 1.1, 3.1
Hardinge, Lord
Hardwar, Kumbh Mela festival at, 6.1, 7.1
Harijan (Gandhi’s weekly newspaper), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
“Harijans” (children of God), as term for untouchables, 1.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1
Harijan Sevak Sangh, or Harijan Service Society (formerly Anti-untouchability League), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 12.1
head taxes: on former indentured Indians, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 8.1, 8.2 (see also satyagraha campaign of 1913); on Zulus (1906), 3.2, 3.3
hijrat (voluntary migration to truly Muslim country)
Hind Swaraj (Indian Self-Rule; Gandhi), 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2
Hindu Mahasabha, 7.1, 12.1
Hindu-Muslim relations, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1; British exploitation of differences and, 1.1; communal violence and, 1.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.2, 8.2, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.9, 11.10, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8; dining and, 2.1; Gandhi’s assassination and, 11.11; Gandhi’s calls for unity and, 4.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.3, 8.3, 8.4; Gandhi’s disappointment with lack of resolution in, 10.1, 10.2; Gandhi’s fasts and, 6.8, 7.4, 11.12, 11.13, 12.9, 12.10, 12.11; Gandhi’s Noakhali mission and, 11.14, 11.15, 11.16, 11.17; intercommunal marriages and, 6.9, 11.18, 12.12; in jails, 3.1; Khilafat issue and, 6.10, 6.11, 7.5, 7.6, 9.2 (see also Khilafat, Khilafat movement); naming of Madhavan’s son and, 7.7; Nehru Report and, 8.5; scenarios for, absent Gandhi, 7.8; Shraddhanand and, 7.9; in South Africa, 1.3, 4.2, 12.13; untouchability issue and, 2.2, 7.10, 7.11, 10.3, 11.19; wearing of loincloth and, 6.12; Zionism issue and, 10.4
Hindu nationalists, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3; contemporary, 12.4; Gandhi assassinated by, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7
Hindu Rashtra (Hindu Nation; newspaper in Poona), 12.1
Hindus, Hinduism, 1.1, 1.2, 6.1; ahimsa (nonviolence) value of, 6.2, 7.1; Ambedkar’s renunciation of, 10.1, 10.2; celibacy vow in (brahmacharya), 1.3, 10.3; Gandhi’s leadership role and, 7.2, 7.3; Gandhi’s quest for egalitarian reforms in, 7.4, 8.1, 9.1; as great encompassing collective, 2.1; Kumbh Mela festival of, 6.3, 7.5; origin of coinage, 2.2; orthodox, anti-Gandhi demonstrations of, 9.2, 9.3; predestination doctrine in, 7.6; reform movements and, 2.3; remaining in Bangladesh and Pakistan, 11.1, 12.1; sexuality as viewed in, 10.4; varnashrama dharma (rules of caste) in, 2.4, 7.7, 7.8, 10.5 (see also caste discrimination)
Hindustani language, 5.1, 6.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Hindutva (“Hinduness” doctrine), 12.1
Hitler, Adolf, 3.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 9.1, 9.2
Home Ministry
Hughes, Heather
Hurbatsingh (indentured Indian)
Hydari Manzil (Calcutta)
Ilanga lase Natal (Sun of Natal; Zulu newspaper), 3.1, 3.2, 5.1
Ilhaves. See Ezhavas
Illustrated London News, 4.1
indentured Indians, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1; Balasundaram case and, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6; “coolie” as term for, 1.1, 12.1; Critic editorial and, 2.7; demise of indenture system and, 5.3; former, Natal’s head tax on, 3.3, 4.5; Gandhi dressed as, 1.2, 4.6, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6; Gandhi’s condescending tone and, 1.3; Gandhi’s identification with, 5.7; Gandhi’s legal representation of, 2.8; Gokhale’s campaign against, 4.7; intercaste marriages among, 2.9; labor contracts of, 1.4, 4.8, 5.8; Natal Indian Congress and, 2.10, 2.11; overlap between untouchables and, 1.5, 5.9, 6.1; as participants in satyagraha, 1.6, 4.9, 5.10, 5.11, 6.2, 12.2 (see also satyagraha campaign of 1913); put on same plane as Africans, 3.4; as stretcher bearers in corps led by Gandhi, 2.12, 3.5; turning point in Gandhi’s thinking on, 5.12; urged to abandon addictions, 5.13, 5.14
Independence Day (August 15, 1947), 1.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
independence movement, 6.1, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1; Anglicized leadership of, 6.2; conferences with British and, 8.2; dominion status as goal of, 8.3, 8.4; Gandhi restored to leadership role in (1928), 8.5, 8.6; Gandhi’s calls for Hindu-Muslim unity and, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 8.7; Gandhi’s first encounters with emerging Muslim leadership of, 6.5; Gandhi’s self-imposed withdrawal from (1924), 7.2, 8.8; Gandhi’s struggle for sexual self-mastery and, 10.1; Nehru Report and, 8.9; proclamation of symbolic independence day and (January 26, 1930), 8.10, 8.11; rallying of Muslims to national cause and, 1.1, 6.6, 6.7, 8.12 (see also Khilafat, Khilafat movement); untouchability issue and, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.13, 8.14, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3; widening chasm between Hindus and Muslims in (1940s), 11.2 (see also partition); World War II and, 10.2, 10.3, 11.3. See also Indian National Congress; swaraj
Independent (Indian nationalist newspaper), 7.1
Indian immigrants: spread of, 1.1, 1.2. See also anti-Indian laws and regulations, South African; indentured Indians
Indian National Congress, 1.1, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2; after Gandhi’s death, 12.3; corruption in, 12.4, 12.5; Gandhi as spokesman of, at Round Table Conference, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3; Gandhi given sole executive authority over, 6.5, 6.6; Gandhi’s first encounter with (1901), 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 6.7, 12.6; Gandhi’s ins and outs from leadership of (1940s), 11.1; Gandhi’s memo on post-independence future of, 12.7; Gandhi’s program adopted by, 6.8; Gandhi’s resignation from (1934), fm.1, 8.4, 9.4, 9.5, 10.2, 10.3, 11.2, 12.8; generational division in, 8.5; Muslim leaders in, 6.9 (see also Ali, Muhammad; Jinnah, Mohammed Ali); Muslims’ break with, 8.6; Nehru Report and, 8.7; partition and, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.9, 12.10, 12.11, 12.12; “Quit India!” movement and, 11.6, 11.7; spinning resolution and, 7.4, 8.8, 8.9; support of British war effort and, 11.8; untouchability issue and, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 8.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.13, 9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.11; Working Committee of, 10.4, 11.9, 11.10, 11.11
Indian Opinion (Gandhi’s weekly newspaper), fm.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, 12.1; moved to Phoenix Settlement, 4.9
Indian Relief Act (1914)
Indian Sociologist (London), 3.1
indigo farmers of Champaran, Bihar, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
industrialization, critiques of ravages of, fm.1, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 10.1
intercaste marriages, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1
intercommunal marriages, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1
Irving, Washington
Irwin, Lord (viceroy), 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1
Islam, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 11.1; forcible conversions of Hindus to, 11.2, 11.3; symbolic importance of Ottoman caliphate and, 6.4 (see also Ottoman caliphate); untouchables converting to, 2.1, 2.2, 7.2, 11.4. See also Muslims, Indian
Italy, Gandhi’s stay in (1931), 8.1, 12.1
Izwi Labantu (Zulu newspaper), 3.1
Jabavu, John Tengo
Jajoo, U. N.
Jamaat-i-Islami
Jama Masjid (Delhi), 7.1, 7.2
Japan, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Jasidih, Bihar, Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour attacked in
Jewish Agency, 10.1, 10.2
Jews: German, satyagraha recommended to, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1; in India, 7.1; Zionist movement and, 4.1, 10.3
jihad, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali, called Quaid-i-Azam, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3; blocked payment to Pakistan and, 12.4; communal violence deplored by, 11.5; “direct action” campaign of, 11.6; Gandhi’s negotiations over partition with, 11.7, 12.5; Gandhi’s relationship with, 11.8; Nehru Report and, 8.2; sartorial transformation of, 11.9
Jinnah, Ruttie
Jinnah caps
Johannesburg, 6.1; burning of residential permits in (1908), 1.1, 3.1; as Gandhi’s base of operations, 1.2, 4.1, 4.2 (see also Tolstoy Farm); Gandhi’s imprisonment in, 3.2; Gandhi’s racial encounter in, 1.3; monuments to Gandhi in, 1.4, 3.3; plague in, 3.4; white workers’ general strikes in (1913), 5.1, 5.2; YMCA debate in (1908), 3.5, 3.6
Joseph, George, 7.1, 7.2
Joyag, Noakhali, Gandhi museum near
“kaffir”: Gandhi’s use of epithet, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3; origin and use of word, 3.4
Kallenbach, Hermann, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 11.1, 12.1; as architect, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; background of, 4.8; as bodybuilder, 4.9; detained during World War I, 5.2, 10.1; Gandhi’s agreements with, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12; Gandhi’s correspondence with, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 10.2; Gandhi’s reunion with, 10.3, 10.4; Jewish identity of, 4.17; Johannesburg homes of Gandhi and, 4.18; rivals for Gandhi’s attention and, 4.19; satyagraha campaign of 1913 and, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8; Tolstoy Farm and, 3.3, 4.20, 4.21, 10.5, 10.6; Zionism and, 4.22, 10.7
Kallenbach, Simon
Kanyakumari, Devi temple at
Karachi, Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour in
Karkare, Vishnu
Kashmir, 12.1, 12.2
Kasturba Gandhi Hospital (Wardha)
Kepel, Gilles
Kerala: intricacies of caste as practiced in, 7.1, 7.2; religious diversity in, 7.3. See also Travancore; Vaikom, Shiva temple at; Vaikom Satyagraha
khadi, or khaddar (hand-loomed cloth), 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1
Kheda, Gujarat, campaign on behalf of farmers in, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 12.1
Khilafat (caliphate), Khilafat movement, 1.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2; bin Laden’s views on, 6.2, 12.3; erosion of Ottoman power and, 6.3, 6.4; Gandhi’s ascendance and, 1.2, 6.5, 6.6; Gandhi’s loincloth and, 6.7; Hindu-Muslim accommodation and, 6.8, 6.9, 7.4, 7.5, 9.1; Jinnah’s skepticism about, 6.10; noncooperation strategy and, 6.11, 6.12, 6.13, 6.14; as preeminent Indian cause among Muslims, 6.15; rallying of Muslims to national cause and, 1.3, 6.16, 6.17, 8.1; waning of, 6.18, 6.19, 6.20, 6.21
Khilafat Committee
kibbutzim
Kildonan Castle, 4.1
Kinfauns Castle, 5.1
Kingdom of God Is Within You, The (Tolstoy), 2.1, 12.1
Kipling, Rudyard
Kochrab Ashram. See Sabarmati Ashram
Kochu, K. K.
Kohat, riots in (1924)
Kolhapur, maharajah of
Kolis
Kolkata. See Calcutta
Koran, 6.1, 6.2
Kripalani, J. B., 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Kripalani, Sucheta
Kumarappa, J. C. (formerly Joseph Cornelius)
Kumbh Mela, 6.1, 7.1
Kwa-Mashu
Labor Party (Great Britain), 8.1, 8.2
Ladysmith, monument to Gandhi in
Lahore: communal violence in, 12.1; Gandhi’s speech in (1947), 12.2
Laski, Harold
“Last Will and Testament, The”
Lawrence, Vincent, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 8.1
Lazar, Hannah (Kallenbach niece)
legislative institutions: Communal Award and (British ruling on electorates for Indian communities), 9.1; Gandhi’s scorn for, 4.1, 5.1; Muslim representation in, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.2, 9.3; Poona Pact and, 9.4, 9.5; Swarajists and, 7.1; untouchable representation in, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 9.6, 9.7, 12.1
Life of Mahomet (Irving), 6.1
Linlithgow, Lord (viceroy)
Lloyd George, David
Lohia, Rammanohar
loincloth: Gandhi’s wearing of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2; symbolic meanings of, 1.3, 6.3, 10.1
Lok Sevak Sangh (People’s Service League)
London: Gandhi’s last visit to (1931), 8.1; Gandhi’s 1909 mission to, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1; Gandhi’s three years in (1888–1891), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 12.1; Round Table Conference in (1931), 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; suffragette demonstrations in, 1.3, 5.1
London Missionary Society
London Vegetarian Society
Luthuli, Albert
Macaulay, Thomas B.
MacDonald, Ramsay, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Madhavan, T. K., 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Madras (now called Chennai): food shortage in (1948), 12.1; Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour in, 9.1
Madras Legislative Council
Mahad, Maharashtra, Ambedkar’s demonstrations in
Mahadevan, T. K.
Mahars, 8.1, 8.2
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Science (Wardha)
Mahomed, Dawad
Maitland, Edward
Malabar, Muslim rebellion in (1921)
Malabar Hill (Bombay) talks (1944), 11.1, 11.2
Malayala Manorama (Kerala newspaper), 7.1, 7.2
Mandela, Nelson, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 5.1
Manusmriti, 8.1
Mappilas, or Moplahs
marriages: forced, of Hindu women with Muslim men, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1; Indian, without legal standing in South Africa, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3; intercaste, 2.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1; intercommunal, of Hindus and Muslims, 6.1, 11.3, 12.2
Mauritius, 1.1, 5.1
Mayawati
McCallum, Sir Henry, 3.1, 4.1
Mehta, Ved
Menon, Krishna
Mesopotamia (now in Iraq)
microfinance schemes, 10.1, 12.1
mine workers: indentured Indian, protest of (1913), 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 12.1 (see also satyagraha campaign of 1913); white, strike of (1913), 5.2, 5.3
Minorities Committee
“Minute on Indian Education” (Macaulay)
Modh Banias, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Morning Post (London), 2.1
Mountbatten, Lord (viceroy), 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Mount Edgecombe: Gandhi’s encounter with Dube at, 3.1, 5.1; turmoil at Campbell’s plantation at, 5.2, 5.3
Muggeridge, Malcolm
Munshi Ram, Mahatma. See Shraddhanand, Swami
Muslim League, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4; Gandhi’s walking tour of Noakhali and, 11.9, 11.10, 11.11, 11.12, 12.5. See also Jinnah, Mohammed Ali, called Quaid-i-Azam
Muslims, Indian, 1.1, 6.1; as converts to noncooperation and satyagraha, 6.2; Gandhi’s ascendance and, 1.2, 6.3, 6.4; Gandhi’s relations with leaders of, 6.5; “kaffir” epithet and, 3.1; legislative representation of, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2; merchants in
South Africa, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 6.6; in post-partition India, 12.1; preservation of Khilafat (caliphate) as preeminent cause among, 6.7 (see also Khilafat, Khilafat movement). See also Hindu-Muslim relations; Islam
Mussolini, Benito, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1
Nagaraj, D. R.
Nagpur, 8.1; Congress meeting at (1920), 6.1, 7.1; Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour in, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3; memorials to Ambedkar movement in, 8.2
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