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Speeches and Writings of M. K. Gandhi  (1922) 
by Mohandas K. Gandhi
1922. See also the images and the index.

SPEECHES AND WRITINGS

of

M. K. GANDHI



with

an introduction by

MR. C. F. ANDREWS

and a biographical sketch


THIRD EDITION

G. A. NATESAN & CO., MADRAS

RUPEES THREE

If we would classify him with any of the supreme figures of human history, it must be with such august

religious prophets as Confucius and Lao-tse, Buddha, Zoroaster and Mohammed, and, most truly of all, the Nazarene ! Out of Asia, at long intervals of time, have arisen these inspired witnesses of God. One "by one they have appeared to teach men by precept and example the law of life, and thereivith to save the race. To-day, in this our time, there comes another of this sacred line, the Mahatma of India. In all reverence and with due regard for historic fact, I match this man with Jesus Christ: — Rev. Dr. Holmes.

— Minister of the Community Church, New York City.

PUBLISHERS' NOTE


THIS is an exhaustive, comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date edition of Mr. Gandhi's Speeches and Writings revised and considerably amplified, with the addition of a large number of articles from Young India and Navajivan (rendered int English.) The-inclusion of these papers have almost doubled the size of the old edition and the present collection runs to about 1,000 pages of well-arranged matter ranging over the whole period of Mr. Gandhi's public life. It opens with a succinct biographical sketch of Mr. Gandhi bringing the account of his life down to the historic trial and sentence. The Volume begins with the Indian South African Question and covers his views on indentured labour and Indians in the Colonies, his jail experiences in South Africa, his pronouncements on the Khaira and Champaran affairs, his discourses on Rowlatt Bills and Satyagraha, and finally his Young India and Navajivan articles on the Non-Cooperation movement, including select papers on the Khilafat and Punjab wrongs, the Congress, Swadeshi, Boycott, Charka, National Education and Swaraj. The additional chapters are arranged under suitable headings and include his messages on the eve of and after the arrest, his statement before the court, the trial and judgment. Then follows a symposium of appreciations from such diverse men as Tolstoy and Tagore, Prof. Gilbert Murray and Dr. Holmes of New York besides excerpts from the British and American press. The book which is bound in cloth and indexed contains portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Gandhi and three characteristic pictures of Mr. Gandhi taken at different periods of his life.

MAY, 1922.

G. A. NATESAN & CO.

CONTENTS


Introduction (p.21) 100%.svg

By Mr. C. F. Andrews

M. K. Gandhi: A Sketch (p.27) 00%.svg

By G. A. Natesan

South African Indian Question

The Beginning of the Struggle (p.91) 00%.svg
Deputation to Lord Selborne (p.120) 00%.svg
Mr. Gandhi's Address (p.122) 00%.svg
Deputation to Lord Elgin (p.133) 00%.svg
Before the Court in 1907 (p.140) 00%.svg
Attitude towards the Assailants (p.144) 00%.svg
The Issue at Stake (p.146) 00%.svg
The Marriage Question (p.151) 00%.svg
Before the Court in 1913 (p.156) 00%.svg
The Solomon Commission (p.159) 00%.svg
Should Indians have full Citizen Rights? (p.167) 00%.svg
A Truce with the Government (p.170) 00%.svg
The Settlement (p.173) 00%.svg
Farewell Speech at Durban (p.175) 00%.svg
Address to the Indentured Indians (p.179) 00%.svg
Address to the Tamil Community (p.181) 00%.svg
Farewell Speech at Johannesburg (p.185) 00%.svg
Farewell to South Africa (p.192) 00%.svg
Reception in England (p.197) 00%.svg
Letter to Lord Crewe (p.198) 00%.svg
Farewell to England (p.199) 00%.svg
Reception in Bombay (p.200) 00%.svg
Reception in Madras
The Indian South African League
Advice to South African Indians
Bail way Restrictions in Transvaal
Indians in South Africa
Indian Rights in the Transvaal
Another S. A. Commission Indians in the Colonies
Reciprocity Between India and the Dominions
Indian and European Emigrants
Indentured Labour
Indian Colonial Emigration
The Iniquities of the Indenture System
Imperial Conference Resolutions

Jail Experiences

Passive Resistance

How the Idea Originated
Soul Force v. Physical Force
The Origin of the Movement in South Africa
The Genesis of Passive Resistance
Passive Resisters in the Tolstoy Farm
A Lesson to India
A Message to the Congress
The Gains of the Passive Resistance Struggle

The Champaran Enquiry

Labour Trouble in Behar

The Kaira Question

The Situation in Kaira
The Vow of Passive Resistance
Statement on the Kaira Distress
Reply to the Commissioner
The Meaning of the Covenant
Reply to Kaira Press Note
End of the Kaira Struggle
The Last Phase

Earlier Indian Speeches

The Duties of British Citizenship
A Plea for the Soul
On Anarchical Crimes
Loyalty to the British Empire
Advice to Students
Politics and the People
The Reward of Public Life
Three Speeches on Gokhale
Unveiling Mr. Gokbale's Portrait
The Lite Mr. Gokhale
Gokhale's Services to India
Hindu University Speech
The Benares Incident
Reply to Karachi Address
The Gurukula
Swadeshi
Ahimsa
Economic vs. Moral Progress
The Moral Basis of Co-operation
Third Class in Indian Railways
Vernaculars as Media of Instruction
Social Service
True Patriotism
The Satyagrahasrama
Indian Merchants
National Dress
The Hindu-Mahomedan Problem
Gujarat Educational Conference
Gujarat Political Conference
Address to Social Service Conference
The Protection of the Cow
On Womanhood
Plea for Hindi
The Ahmedabad Mill Hands
A Letter to the Viceroy
Recruiting for the War
The Montagu Chelmsford Scheme
Present Top-heavy Administration

The Rowlatt Bills & Satyagraba

Manifesto to the Press
The Pledge
Speech at Allahabad
Speech at Bombay
Speech at Madras
Appeal to the Viceroy
The Satyagraha Day
Satyagraha Day in Madras
Message to Satyagrahis
The Delhi Incident
Message to Madras Satyagrahis
Message to the Bombay Citizens
Distribution of Prohibited Literature
Message After Arrest
The "Satyagrahi"
Satyagraha and Duragraha
Speech at Ahmedabad
Temporary Suspension of the Movement

Non-Co-Operation

The Punjab & Khilafat Wrongs
The Amritsar Appeals
The Khilafat Question
"Why I have Joined the Khilafat Movement"
Congress Report on the Punjab Disorders
A Personal Statement
How to Work Non-Co-operation
Open Letter to Lord Chelmsford
Political Freemasonry
Courts and Schools
Speech at Madras
Speech at the Special Congress
Swaraj in one Year
"To Every Englishman in India"
The Creed of the Congress
Appeal to Young Bengal
Open Letter to the Duke of Connaught
The Need for Humility
Strikes
The Malegaon Incident
The Simla Visit
The Ali Brothers' Apology
Violence and Non-Violence
Appeal to the Women of India
The Arrest of the Ali Brothers
Manifesto on Freedom of Opinion
The Great Sentinel
Honour the Prince
The Bombay Riots
The Statement
Message to the Citizens of Bombay
Appeal to the Hooligans of Bombay
Appeal to his Co-Workers
Peace at Last
The Moral Issue
Civil Disobedience
The Moplah Outbreak
Reply to Lord Ronaldshay
The Round Table Conference
The Abmedabad Congress Speech
The Independence Resolution
The Bombay Conference
Letter to H. E. the Viceroy
Reply to the Government of India
The Crime of Chauri Chaura
In Defence of the Bardoli Decisions
The Delhi Resolutions
Reply to Critics
A Divine Warning

On the Eve of Arrest

"If I am Arrested."
Message to Co-Workers
Message to Kerala

After the Arrest

The Arrest
The Message of the Charka
Letter to Hakim Ajmal Khan
Letter to Srimati Urmila Devi
Interview in Jail
Letter to Moulana Abdul Bari
Message to the Parsis
Truth of the Spinning Wheel
Letter to Mr. Andrews

The Great Trial

Statement Before the Court
Written Statement
The Judgment
Mr. Gandhi's Reply
Message to the Country

Jail Life in India

The Meaning of the Imprisonments
Work in Gaols
A Model Prisoner

Miscellaneous

A Confession of Faith (p.859) 00%.svg
Passive Resistors in the Tolstoy Farm (p.863) 00%.svg
The Rationale of Suffering (p.864) 00%.svg
The Theory and Practice of Passive Resistance (p.866) 00%.svg
On Soul Force and Indian Politics (p.869) 00%.svg
Rights and Duties of Labour (p.874) 00%.svg
The Doctrine of the Sword (p.878) 00%.svg
The Gujarat National University (p.883) 00%.svg
Indian Medicine (p.888) 00%.svg
Hindustani and English (p.890) 00%.svg
Social Boycott (p.892) 00%.svg
"Neither a Saint nor a Politician" (p.895) 00%.svg
Hindu-Moslem Unity (p.901) 00%.svg
Untouchability (p.905) 00%.svg
Gokhale, Tilak and Mehta (p.908) 00%.svg
The Fear of Death (p.913) 00%.svg
Hinduism (p.916) 00%.svg
National Education (p.924) 00%.svg
From Satyagraha to Non-Co-Operation (p.928) 00%.svg
Introspection (p.931) 00%.svg
The Spinning Wheel (p.934) 00%.svg
Love, not Hate (p.936) 00%.svg

Appendix I

Mr. Gandhi's Religion (p.939) 00%.svg
The Rules and Regulations of Satyagrahasrama (p.943) 00%.svg
The Memorial to Mr. Montagu (p.948) 00%.svg
The Swadeshi Vow (p.950) 00%.svg

Appendix II — Appreciations.

Count Leo Tolstoy (p.955) 00%.svg
Prof. Gilbert Murray (p.955) 00%.svg
Lord Hardinge (p.958) 00%.svg
Lord Ampthill (p.958) 00%.svg
The Lord Bishop of Madras (p.958) 00%.svg
Lord Gladstone (p.959) 00%.svg
The Hon. Mr. Jameson (p.959) 00%.svg
Sir Henry Cotton (p.959) 00%.svg
Mr. Charles Roberts, M. P. (p.959) 00%.svg
Senator W. P. Schreiner (p.960) 00%.svg
G. K. Gokhale (p.960) 00%.svg
Rev. Joseph Doke (p.961) 00%.svg
Mrs. Annie Besant (p.962) 00%.svg
Sir P. M. Mehta (p.962) 00%.svg
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (p.962) 00%.svg
Dr. Subramania Iyer (p.963) 00%.svg
Sir Rabindranath Tagore (p.963) 00%.svg
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (p.963) 00%.svg
Lala Lajpat Rai (p.964) 00%.svg
Dr. J. H. Holmes (p.964) 00%.svg
Mr. W. W. Pearson (p.965) 00%.svg
Mr. Percival Landon (p.965) 00%.svg
Col. J. C. Wedgwood, M. P. (p.966) 00%.svg
Mr. Blanch Watson (p.966) 00%.svg
Mr. Ben Spoor, M. P. (p.966) 00%.svg
Mr. S. E Stokes (p.968) 00%.svg
Vincent Anderson (p.968) 00%.svg
Sir Valentine Chirol (p.968) 00%.svg
Mr. C. F. Andrews (p.968) 00%.svg
S. W. Clemes (p.970) 00%.svg
Mr. W. E. Johnson (p.970) 00%.svg
The Rt. Hon. V. S. Srinivasa Sastri (p.971) 00%.svg
Mr. H. S. L. Polak (p.976) 00%.svg
Mr. K. Natarajan (p.983) 00%.svg
Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (p.983) 00%.svg
Babu Dwijendranath Tagore (p.984) 00%.svg

Related Books (p.986) 75%.svg

Index (p.987) 00%.svg

Related Books and Eminent Orientalists (p.995) 75%.svg

Illustrations

Mr. & Mrs. Gandhi
Three Portraits of Gandhi


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