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The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi (The Robert Payne Library)

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by Robert Payne

The Prince Madhavsingh incident is given in Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase, 181.

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  There are many translations of the Vaishnava Song. This, the best known to me, is taken from Krishnadas, Seven Months with Mahatma Gandhi, 293.

  An Enchanted Childhood

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  I roamed about

  Shukla, Reminiscences of Gandhi, 110.

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  There are no ghosts

  Story, 32.

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  There is nothing

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase, 195.

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  The carnival incident is given in Prabhubas Gandhi, My Childhood with Gandhi, 27, and Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase, 194.

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  It does not matter

  Story, 5.

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  I did not talk

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase, 202.

  Schoolboy

  Much of this chapter is based on J. M. Upadhyaya, Mahatma Gandhi as a Student, a short and impressively scholarly work which carefully studies Gandhi’s grades and school reports. He includes a brief account of Gandhi as a cricketer.

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  The “kettle” incident is given in Story, 6.

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  Smoking, stealing and the experiment with dhatura seeds are given in

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  Story, 25-27.

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  The impressions of the former

  Story, 11.

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  Everything had to be

  Gandhi, Evil Wrought by the English Medium, 14.

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  It is a blot

  Story, 31.

  Growing Pains

  48

  Don’t reveal

  Story, 36.

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  You will have

  CW, I, 5.

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  As for myself

  CW, I, 7.

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  The Lely incident is given in CW, I, 7-8, and is taken from Gandhi’s London diary written in November 1888.

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  I shall not lie to you

  Story, 38.

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  I hope that some

  CW, I, 2.

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  Will you disregard

  Story, 64.

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  The construction of the

  CW, I, 15.

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  When you land

  CW, I, 17.

  The London Years

  61

  The doors were opened

  CW, I, 21.

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  Do not touch

  Story, 44.

  63

  What is the value

  Story, 46.

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  It was smutty

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase, 232.

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  You are too clumsy

  Story, 49.

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  In order to live

  CW, I, 22.

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  We shall look

  Story, 66.

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  You civilised fellows

  Story, 75.

  The English Gentleman

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  The violin was to

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase, 234.

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  Mr. Bell rang

  Story, 51.

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  Let every youth

  Story, 52.

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  If one ponders

  Story, 67.

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  Well, sir, you believe

  Story, 69.

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  I decided to act

  Story, 71.

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  they were not detracting

  Story, 77.

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  Mr. Gandhi, in a very

  CW, I, 53.

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  I conceive

  Story, 61.

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  The breakfast menu

  CW, I, 66.

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  It was like leaving

  CW, I, 70.

  Rajchandra

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  In my moments

  Story, 89.

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  I have ever since

  Story, 91.

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  Are you a graduate

  Story, 95.

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  My head was reeling

  Story, 94.

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  You do not know

  Story, 89.

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  Your brother is

  Story, 98.

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  Tell Gandhi

  Story, 99.

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  Not more than a year

  Story, 102.

  An Agent of the Company

  92

  That doesn’t matter

  Story, 111.

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  Sami, you sit on this

  Story, 113.

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  That doesn’t matter

  Story, 117.

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  This superstition

  Story, 129.

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  long letter to Shrimad

  The text of the letter is given in CW, I, 90-91.

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  The question is not

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase, 329.

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  The son will certainly

  CW, XXI, 429.

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  What can we understand

  Story, 138.

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  It is the first nail

  Story, 139.

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  The Association served

  Story, 152.

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  The turban that I

  Story, 147.

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  I think it will

  CW, I,159-60.

  The First Clashes

  106

  Tell the police

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase, 493.

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  The visit to the Trappist monastery is recorded in CW, I, 180-86.

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  A pamphlet published

  CW, II, 187-88.

  109

  Is your speech ready

  Story, 175.

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  Parliament opens January

  Story, 182.

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  The Courland incident is described in Story, 185-93, and Satyagraha, 52-61.

  The End of an Era

  115

  I do not return

  CW, II, 163.

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  You took such steps

  Satyagraha, 63.

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  I beg to state

  CW, II, 166.

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  I will not stand

  Story, 277.

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  It was a time

  Story, 278.

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  This work brought

  Story, 202.

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  The charge for washing

  Story, 212.

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  Gandhi’s reference to Lieutenant Roberts is to be found in CW, XVI, 73.

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  I would not be

  CW, III, 222-23.

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  Every man in Buller’s

  Andrews, Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas, 363.

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  British Indians Natal

  CW, III, 173-74.

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  It was hard

  CW, III, 193.

  125

  The grief which

  CW, XXI, 431.

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  On my relief

  Story, 219.

  126

  If I ever want

  Story, 220-21; CW, III, 209.

  An Interlude in India

  132

  Gandhi, it seems

  Story, 222.

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  Take that chair

  Story, 225.

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/>   pure as crystal

  CW, XX, 371.

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  No, no, there is

  Story, 227.

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  This is Professor

  Story, 231.

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  I love your simple

  Story, 233.

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  Third class passengers

  Story, 239.

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  This insult

  Story, 242.

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  Woes of Mahatmas

  Story, 242.

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  I do not despair

  CW, III, 261.

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  In getting my life

  Story, 263.

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  My honour is in

  Story, 248.

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  Banister Gandhi

  CW, III, 263. In his autobiography he gives the text of the telegram erroneously as: “Chamberlain expected here. Please return immediately.”

  Phoenix

  140

  to get a gift

  Story, 255.

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  Mr. Gandhi, you are

  Radhakrishnan, Mahatma Gandhi: Essays and Reflections, 55.

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  I shall do what I can

  Story, 255.

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  I am not here

  Story, 283:

  143

  The plague incident is described in Story, 290-95.

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  Sober, god-fearing

  Story, 295.

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  He had a wonderful

  Story, 297.

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  who was fond of

  Story, 267.

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  A man’s hand

  Ruskin, Unto This Last, 143.

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  That the good

  Story, 299.

  Sergeant Major Gandhi

  154

  I bore no grudge

  Story, 313.

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  We cannot meet

  CW, V, 362.

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  Those who can

  CW, V, 366-67.

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  The Natives in our

  CW, V, 372.

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  is a filthy mass

  CW, XII, 165.

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  By means of the

  CW, XII, 165.

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  God is striving

  CW, XII, 165-66.

  A Deputation to London

  162

  The law is designed

  Satyagraha, 101.

  163

  There is only one

  Satyagraha, 107.

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  We may have to

  Satyagraha, 106.

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  which is the weapon

  Satyagraha, 111.

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  Satyagraha postulates

  Satyagraha, 114.

  165

  When he chooses

  CW, V, 469.

  167

  the very off-scourings

  CW, VI, 115.

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  We were assured

  CW, VI, 126.

  169

  God’s ways are inscrutable

  CW, VI, 259.

  The First Satyagraha Campaign

  171

  BOYCOTT!

  CW, VII, 117.

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  To resist the law

  Satyagraha, 131.

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  I swear in the

  Satyagraha, 133.

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  As far as

  CW, VIII, 3-4.

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  For Gandhi’s life in prison, see Shukla, Incidents of Gandhiji’s Life, 242. 43, and CW, VIII, 119 seq. and 139 seq.

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  You may go now

  Satyagraha, 156-57.

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  Death is the

  Satyagraha, 163.

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  Where are you going

  Satyagraha, 162.

  The Defiant Prisoner

  182

  If he would like

  Andrews, Mahatma Gandhi at Work, 378.

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  What is the hurry?

  Satyagraha, 168.

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  My cherisher is God

  Satyagraha, 172.

  185

  It is well if

  CW, V, 335.

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  Sir, I have received

  CW, VIII, 432-33.

  187

  I am taking a

  CW, IX, 173.

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  Be sure that

  CW, IX, 150.

  188

  Lord Buddha

  CW, IX, 175.

  189

  I did not

  CW, VIII, 458.

  190

  I very much regret

  Doke, M. K. Gandhi: An Indian Patriot in South Africa, 151.

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  Keep absolutely

  CW, IX, 104.

  192

  I was not in the

  CW, IX, 161.

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  My enthusiasm

  CW, IX, 175.

  192

  I love you

  CW, IX, 106.

  193

  You are too obstinate

  Story, 327.

  194

  The sky rings

  CW, IX, 242.

  194

  When, smiling

  CW, IX, 243.

  The Terrorists

  200

  at the end of

  Polak, Mr. Gandhi: The Man, 99.

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  The subject of the sketch

  Doke, M. K. Gandhi: An Indian Patriot in South Africa, xi-xii.

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  In my view

  CW, IX, 302.

  204

  When a martyr

  Keer, Veer Savarkar, 52.

  204

  The only lesson

  The Indian Sociologist, September 1909, 38.

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  Hindus are the heart

  Keer, Veer Savarkar, 64.

  A Confession of Faith

  210

  No one points

  CW, IX, 389.

  211

  a conspicuous act

  CW, IX, 315.

  211

  The vast majority

  CW, IX, 376.

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  We have been here

  CW, IX, 411.

  212

  The agony is now

  CW, IX, 414.

  212

  mashed into a pulp

  CW, IX, 447.

  212

  When young Indians

  CW, IX, 425.

  214

  Reincarnation or transmigration

  CW, IX, 446.

  215

  A dear old lady

  CW, IX, 478.

  215

  Confession of Faith, 1909

  CW, IX, 479-80.

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  The true remedy

  CW, IX, 509.

  Hind Swaraj

  220

  There is no end to

  CW, X, 69.

  221

  READER! At first

  CW, X, 42.

  222

  Kings will always

  cw, x, 51.

  223

  I have no objection

  CW, X, 61.

  224

  You want English

  CW, X, 15.

  224

  The means may be

  cw, x, 43.

  225

  I desire that

  cw, x, 69.

  Tolstoy Farm

  230

  Pray thank Mr. Tata

  CW, X, 83.

  231

  simple earth

  CW, X, 280.

  231

  My eye always followed

  Satyagraha, 244.

  232

  I never heard

  S
atyagraha, 245.

  233

  The ignorance of my

  Story, 336.

  233

  I saw, therefore

  Story, 339.

  The Voice from the Mountaintop

  236

  I am most anxious

  CW, X, 210.

  236

  Dear friend

  CW, X, 505.

  238

  The longer I live

  Tendulkar, 1, 122-23.

  240

  I was at that time

  Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase, 627.

  The Revolt of Harilal

  241

  Where a choice

  Story, 201.

  241

  It is an important

  CW, VIII, 442.

  242

  The change made

  CW, IX, 200.

 

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