The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi (The Robert Payne Library)
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He gambled away
Idem, 247.
575
leaves of the same tree
Idem, 271.
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Let the Congress
Idem, 269.
576
Suppose I have
Sheean, Lead, Kindly Light, 183.
576
But what if
Idem, 185.
576
Renunciation is the
Idem, 185.
576
“No,” he answered
Manubehn Gandhi, Last Glimpses of Bapu, 280.
577
You must not do
Hutheesing, We Nehrus, 222.
578
Why do you not
Manubehn Gandhi, Last Glimpses of Bapu,
If I were to die
286-91.
579
Idem, 297-98.
583
I do not like
Manubehn Gandhi, The End of an Epoch, 30.
583
Whether weary or
Idem, 30-31.
585
Who knows what
Idem, 33-34.
585
Go through it
Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase,
II, 767.
585
Taking care of you
Manubehn Gandhi, The End of an Epoch, 36.
585
Who knows what is
Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase, II, 767.
586
Even in an armed
Manubehn Gandhi, Last Glimpses of Bapu, 303.
586
Bapuji, how strange
Manubehn Gandhi, The End of an Epoch, 37-
586
I expect to return
Manubehn Gandhi, Last Glimpses of Bapu, 304.
587
Everywhere I look
Idem, 304.
587
How long will the
Idem, 304.
588
Tell them they can
Idem, 306.
588
Nurses must do
Idem, 308.
590
You have been serving
Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase, II, 772.
590
Brother, Bapuji is
Manubehn Gandhi, The End of an Epoch, 42.
The Burning
592
Your Excellency, it is
Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase, II, 775.
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Gandhiji told me
Idem, II, 775.
593
Go and ask Bapu
Manubehn Gandhi, The End of an Epoch, 47.
595
The light has gone
Norman, Nehru: The First Sixty Years, II,
384.
The Hatching of the Plot
6l2
For the present
Kanshala, The Light of the World—Bapu, 31.
613
You are a married
Khosla, The Murder of the Mahatma, 219.
616
It is clear that
Keer, Veer Savarkar, 177.
6l6
Be successful and come
Gandhi Murder Trial, 77.
617
Don’t show me your
Keer, Veer Savarkar, 53.
6l8
sessions, conventions
Gandhi Murder Trial, 67.
623
You have been talking
Idem, 13.
The Murder
626
This is our last chance
Gandhi Murder Trial, 14.
632
Apte has responsibilities
Khosla, The Murder of the Mahatma, 233.
833
You will miss me
Idem, 234.
The Verdict of the Court
837
Bom in a devotional
Gandhi Murder Trial, 39-66.
643
Dear Brother Shri
Idem, 99.
844
It was after all
Idem, 100.
844
And Arjuna actually
Idem, 101.
847
What is all this
Sengupta, Sarojini Naidu, 328.
Chronological Table
1869
October 2
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born in Porbandar.
1879
January 21
Gandhi enters Taluka School at Rajkot.
1880
December 1
Enters Kathiawar High School, Rajkot.
1882
He marries Kasturbhai Makanji.
1885
November
Death of Karamchand Gandhi at the age of sixty-three.
1888
January
Gandhi enters Samaldas College at Bhavnagar, but leaves at the end of first term.
Spring
Birth of Harilal.
September 4
Gandhi sails for England from Bombay.
November 6
He is admitted into the Inner Temple.
1889
November
He meets Madame Blavatsky and Annie Besant, but declines to join the Theosophical Society.
December
He reads Edwin Arnold’s Song Celestial, and fails in the London matriculation.
1890
June
He passes the London matriculation.
September 19
He joins London Vegetarian Society and becomes member of the executive committee.
1891
June 10
He is called to the Bar.
June 12
He sails for India, where he learns of his mother’s death and meets Rajchandra.
1892
May 14
Receives permission to practice in Kathiawar courts, but fails to establish a successful practice.
1892
Spring
Birth of his second son, Manilal.
1893
April
Sails for South Africa as legal adviser to Dada Abdullah and Co.
June
While traveling to Pretoria, he is ordered off the train at
Pietermaritzburg and vows to dedicate himself to active non-violent resistance.
1894
May
Organizes Natal Indian Congress.
1895
April
Visits Trappist monastery near Durban.
1896
June 5
Sails to India where he addresses meetings on behalf of Indians in South Africa.
November 30
Sails for South Africa with his family.
December 12
S.S. Courland with Gandhi on board reaches Durban.
1897
January 13
Gandhi is finally allowed to leave the ship and is attacked by a mob.
May
Birth of his third son, Ramdas.
1899
December
Organizes Indian Ambulance Corps to serve in the Boer War.
1900
January 21
Indian Ambulance Corps sees action at Spion Kop, and is disbanded a week later.
May 22
Birth of his fourth son, Devadas.
1901
January 22
Death of Queen Victoria.
May
Death of Rajchandra.
October
Gandhi leaves South Africa and reaches India in the middle of December.
1902
February
Settles in Rajkot to practice law. Here, and later in Bombay, he fails to establish a successful practice.
1902
December
Returns without his family to South Africa.
1903
February
Opens law office in Johannesburg.
1904
February
Plague breaks out in Indian Location in Johannesburg.
October
November-
Reads Ruskin’s Unto This Last
December
Founds the Phoenix Settlement.
1905
August 9
Poll-tax bill passed by Natal Legislative Council. Gandhi calls for revision of the bill.
1906
January 1
Poll-tax enforced on all Indians above the age of 18.
March 17
Gandhi begins to organize an Ambulance Corps for service during Zulu rebellion. The Corps serves briefly at the front in June and July. During this period Gandhi makes a vow of chastity.
September 11
Mass meeting of Indians at Empire Theatre in Johannesburg, calling for withdrawal of Asiatics Registration bill.
October 3
Sails for England with Hadji Ojeer Ally to seek redress from British government. Meets important officials, and returns to South Africa on December 18.
1907
July 31
Mass meeting at Johannesburg, followed by general strike.
1908
January 10
Placed on trial and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, but released on January 31.
February 10
Gandhi is wounded by Mir Alam.
July 28
Gandhi appears in court to defend his son Harilal, who is sentenced to seven days’ hard labor.
1908
August 16
Gandhi addresses mass meeting in Johannesburg and encourages burning of registration certificates.
October 7
Gandhi arrested at Volksrust and later sentenced to two months’ hard labor. He is released from Volksrust Jail on December 12.
1909
February 25
Gandhi again arrested at Volksrust and sentenced to three months. He is released from Pretoria Central Jail on May 24.
June 23
Gandhi and Hadji Abeeb sail for England.
July 2
Sir Curzon Wyllie assassinated in London by Madanlal Dhingra.
October 24
Gandhi attends Dassara festival in London with Savarkar.
November 13
Gandhi and Hadji Abeeb sail for South Africa. On the journey Gandhi writes Hind Swaraj and translates Tolstoy’s Letter to a Hindu.
1910
May 30
Gandhi accepts the offer of Hermann Kallenbach to provide Indian resisters with 1,100 acres of land to be known as Tolstoy Farm.
1911
May 15
Harilal Gandhi, at Tolstoy Farm, quarrels with his father.
1912
October 22
Gokhale arrives in Cape Town. Gandhi accompanies him during a five-week tour of South Africa.
1913
March 14
Cape Supreme Court decrees that all marriages contracted according to Islamic rites are invalid. Gandhi protests the decree.
November 6
Gandhi leads march of over 2,000 Indian coal miners and workers on sugar plantations to protest ill-treatment of Indians in South Africa.
November 11
Gandhi is sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labor. He is released on December 18.
1914
Januraiy 13
Gandhi and General Smuts begin negotiations, resulting in compromise.
July 18
Gandhi sails for England, leaving South Africa for the last time.
August 14
He offers to raise Indian Volunteer Corps, but falls ill with pleurisy and is therefore unable to command it.
December 19
He sails for India, reaching Bombay on January 9.
1915
March 10
He attempts to reorganize the school of Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan.
May 20
He inaugurates his own ashram at Kochrab near Ahmedabad.
1916
February 6
He speaks at Benares University.
December 26
He attends the Indian National Congress at Lucknow, where he meets Rajkumar Shukla.
1917
April 10
He reaches Patna with Rajkumar Shukla, and begins inquiry into problems of the indigo workers in Champaran. The problems are resolved in August.
1918
February 22
Ahmedabad millowners declare general lockout. Gandhi leads Satyagraha campaign on behalf of millworkers.
1919
April 13
Massacre at Amritsar. Gandhi announces three-day penitential fast.
November 4
Gandhi is received in Golden Temple at Amritsar.
1920
August 1
He writes to Lord Chelmsford, calling for a conference of Indian leaders.
1921
July 31
Gandhi presides over a bonfire of foreign cloth in Bombay.
September 22
In Madura he adopts the “mourning costume” he will wear to the end of his life.
November 19
Fasts for five days to protest communal rioting following the visit of the Prince of Wales.
December
Mass civil-disobedience campaign begins.
1922
February 4
Riots at Chauri Chaura.
March 10
Gandhi is arrested at Ahmedabad, and a week later he is sentenced to six years’ imprisonment.
1923
November 26
In prison begins writing Satyagraha in South Africa.
1924
January 12
He is operated upon for appendicitis.
February 4
The order for his unconditional release is issued.
September 17
He begins twenty-one-day fast on behalf of Hindu-Muslim unity.
1925
November 7
Madeleine Slade joins Gandhi’s ashram at Sabarmati.
1926
April 1
Lord Reading leaves; Lord Irwin becomes Viceroy.
1927
March
Marriage of Manilal Gandhi and Sushila Mushruwala.
1928
February 12
Bardoli peasants refuse to pay taxes.
1929
March
Gandhi is arrested for burning foreign cloth, and is fined one rupee.
December
At Lahore Congress Session Gandhi declares for complete independence. The flag of free India is raised on December 31.
1930
January 26
Proclamation of the Indian Declaration of Independence.
March 12
Gandhi begins Salt March from Sabarmati to Dandi.
April 6
He breaks salt law on the beach at Dandi.
April 18
Raid on the armory at Chittagong.
May 5
Gandhi arrested at Karadi, and imprisoned at Yeravda Jail without trial.
May 21
Manilal Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu lead Salt March at Dharasana. Hartal all over India, and a hundred thousand sympathizers jailed.
1931
January 26
Gandhi is unconditionally released, together with other Congress leaders.
March 4
Gandhi-Irwin Pact is signed.
September 12
Round Table Conference held in London, attended by Gandhi. Conference closes on December 5.
December 14
Gandhi sails to India from Brindisi after visiting Romain Rolland in Switzerland.
1932
January 4
He is arrested in Bombay and detained in Yeravda Jail.
August 17
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald hands down the Communal Award.
Se
ptember 20
Gandhi begins a fast unto death in protest of separate electorates for untouchables. The fast is concluded on September 26.
September 24
Yeravda Pact signed.
1933
May 8
Gandhi begins self-purification fast in prison, and is released.
1933
June 16
Devadas Gandhi marries Lakshmi Rajagopalachari.
August 1
Gandhi is arrested and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment.
August 16
He begins a fast because he is not allowed to work for the untouchables while in prison. Four days later he is removed to the Sassoon Hospital, and released.
November 7
Begins to tour India on behalf of the untouchables.
1934
January 15
The great Bihar earthquake. Gandhi visits Bihar in March.