Great Soul_ Mahatma Gandhi And His Struggle With India Part 20

47The time had come: Omvedt, Ambedkar Ambedkar, p. 61.

48If any admiration: B. R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste Annihilation of Caste, pp. 8486.

49"Obviously, he would like": B. R. Ambedkar, What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables, p. 277.

50But there's suggestive: Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi Gandhi, p. 597.

51"a flair for action": Nehru, Toward Freedom Toward Freedom, p. 240.

52He also knew that: This is made clear in a discussion between Nehru and Mahadev Desai, on August 23, 1934, summarized in an as-yet-unpublished English translation of a portion of Mahadev Desai's diary on file at the Gandhi Memorial Library, pp. 12124.

53This provoked the Bengali: Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 3, p. 205.

54"Life ceases to interest me": Ibid., p. 215.

55"If Mr. Gandhi now feels": Ibid., pp. 215, 217.

56He was thus maneuvered: Ibid., p. 216.

57An early conclusion: The reports by colonial officials on the Gandhi tour are on file in the archive of the Nehru Memorial Museum. Many but not all of these reports have been excerpted in Ray, Gandhi's Campaign Against Untouchability Gandhi's Campaign Against Untouchability.

58"I am quite sure": Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 3, p. 281.

59"We can't even say": Unpublished English translation of a portion of Mahadev Desai's diary, for autumn 1934, on file at the Gandhi Memorial Library. See p. 162.

60"The only way we can": Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 3, p. 280.

61Near the end of the tour: Ray, Gandhi's Campaign Against Untouchability Gandhi's Campaign Against Untouchability, p. 220.

62It so preoccupied him: Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi Gandhi, p. 362.

63"Anything more opposed": Nehru, Toward Freedom Toward Freedom, p. 301.

64Tagore said Gandhi's logic: Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi Gandhi, pp. 36263.

65"Our sins and errors": Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 3, p. 250.

66"I would be untruthful": Ibid., p. 251.

67The sanatanists were: Nayar, Preparing for Swaraj Preparing for Swaraj, pp. 2078.

68In Poona, near the end: Ray, Gandhi's Campaign against Untouchability Gandhi's Campaign against Untouchability, p. 178.

69"Dr. Ambedkar complained": Ibid., pp. 4647.

70"the growing pauperism": CWMG CWMG, 2nd ed., vol. 65, pp. 17879.

71"I have lost the power": CWMG CWMG, vol. 59, p. 218.

72He ended the tour at Wardha: Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 3, p. 282.

73"The sanatanists are now": Ibid., p. 283.

74"a profound error for me": Ibid., p. 297.

75He was going in the opposite: Ibid., pp. 280, 296.

76"None of them knows": CWMG CWMG, vol. 61, p. 403, cited in Brown, Gandhi Gandhi, p. 292.

77"What I am aiming for": Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 4, p. 304.

CHAPTER 10: VILLAGE OF SERVICE.

1"The villagers have a lifeless life": Nayar, Preparing for Swaraj Preparing for Swaraj, p. 301.

2"a mechanical performance": Harijan Harijan, Aug. 17, 1934.

3Later he allowed himself: CWMG CWMG, vol. 60, p. 58.

4"We have to work away": Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 5, p. 245.

5"We have to become speechless": CWMG CWMG, 2nd ed., vol. 65, p. 432.

6Now, by working again: CWMG CWMG, vol. 59, p. 179.

7Once he resolved: Ibid, p. 312.

8"Wardha became the de facto": Weber, Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor, p. 104.

9By the end of the decade: Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 5, pp. 1718.

10"shame some j.a.panese": Ibid., p. 14.

11"You must not": Ibid., p. 15. It's not clear whether a translator, editor, or Gandhi himself was responsible for this odd misuse of the word "clout" for what might have been termed a codpiece, breechcloth, cup, or even "jewel case." In one of its more obscure definitions, "clout" can refer to a leather or iron patch.

12"Who knows": Ibid., p. 347.

13As might have been expected: Payne, Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi, pp. 46465. Also see Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi Gandhi, pp. 4067.

14"The people are completely shameless": Narayan Desai, The Fire and the Rose The Fire and the Rose, pp. 6012.

15No road, as yet: Slade, Spirit's Pilgrimage Spirit's Pilgrimage, pp. 2023.

16"If you will cooperate": CWMG CWMG, vol. 62, p. 332.

17"a very charming": Slade, Spirit's Pilgrimage Spirit's Pilgrimage, p. 203.

18The hut that he was to occupy: Nayar, Preparing for Swaraj Preparing for Swaraj, p. 366.

19Ashram and village: Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi Gandhi, pp. 38081.

20"Oh G.o.d": CWMG CWMG, vol. 59, p. 402.

21Gandhi's letters were full: CWMG CWMG, 2nd ed., vol. 65, p. 371.

22A Christian, he was known: k.u.marappa had studied economics at Columbia University with Edwin Seligman, who also taught Ambedkar.

23the last Western economist: See reference in E. F. Schumacher, who quotes k.u.marappa briefly. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Point Roberts, Wash., reprint, 1999), p. 39. (Point Roberts, Wash., reprint, 1999), p. 39.

24"The a.s.sociation": CWMG CWMG, vol. 59, p. 452.

25"Full-timers, whole-hoggers": Ibid., p. 411.

26"necessary adjustment": Ibid., vol. 62, p. 319.

27"So! You are already tired!": Narayan Desai, The Fire and the Rose The Fire and the Rose, pp. 6023.

28"If this does not work": CWMG CWMG, vol. 62, p. 239.

29When one of his workers: Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 4, p. 96.

30"The only way is to sit": CWMG CWMG, vol. 62, p. 379.

31"Our ambition is to make": Ibid., p. 378.

32Soon he came down: Slade, Spirit's Pilgrimage Spirit's Pilgrimage, p. 207.

33A United Nations survey: Malise Ruthven, "Excremental India," New York Review of Books New York Review of Books, May 13, 2010.

34What such latter-day: Muhammad Yunus, the n.o.bel Peace Prize laureate who leads the Grameen Bank in neighboring Bangladesh, is aware of similarities between his approach to rural poverty and Gandhi's, but does not cite the Mahatma as an influence on the development of his thinking in his book Banker to the Poor Banker to the Poor (New Delhi, 2007). The same is true of Fazle Hasan Abed, the leader of the even larger BRAC Bank, also in Bangladesh, another pioneer in what is called "social entrepreneurs.h.i.+p." See Ian Smillie, (New Delhi, 2007). The same is true of Fazle Hasan Abed, the leader of the even larger BRAC Bank, also in Bangladesh, another pioneer in what is called "social entrepreneurs.h.i.+p." See Ian Smillie, Freedom from Want Freedom from Want (Sterling, Va., 2009). (Sterling, Va., 2009).

35According to one of the untouchable: Keer, Dr. Ambedkar Dr. Ambedkar, p. 268.

36The observation had provoked: Narayan Desai, My Life Is My Message My Life Is My Message, vol. 3, Satyapath Satyapath, p. 172.

37Within a few months: "Caste Has to Go," Harijan Harijan, Nov. 16, 1935; CWMG CWMG, vol. 62, pp. 12122.

38Actually, their deepest difference: CWMG CWMG, vol. 67, p. 359.

39As interpreted by D. R. Nagaraj: Nagaraj, Flaming Feet Flaming Feet, p. 39.

40From the standpoint: Ibid., pp. 2425.

41The impatience of the Ezhavas: Tendulkar, Mahatma Mahatma, vol. 4, p. 97.

42"Would you preach the Gospel": Ibid., p. 101.

43In his weekly: CWMG CWMG, vol. 65, p. 296.

44Indignant over the foreigner's: Harijan Harijan, June 12, 1937.

45"None of our Hindu subjects": Mahadev Desai, Epic of Travancore Epic of Travancore, p. 40.

46So the old man now recalled: Interview with the maharajah of Travancore, Jan. 15, 2009.

47"truly captivating": CWMG CWMG, vol. 64, p. 255.

48At nearly every stop: Mahadev Desai, Epic of Travancore Epic of Travancore, pp. 21819.

49"I must tell you": CWMG CWMG, vol. 64, p. 248.

50Ever since his provocative: Ibid., p. 62.

51"What a wide gap": Ibid., p. 132.

52"No worker who has not": Ibid., p. 61.

53"Gandhi's asceticism": Parekh, Colonialism, Tradition, and Reform Colonialism, Tradition, and Reform, pp. 2056.

54"I can suppress the enemy": Ibid., p. 207.

55In Bombay, recuperating: CWMG CWMG, vol. 62, pp. 42830.

56In less graphic terms: Ibid., p. 212.

57"the revolting things": Saint Augustine, Confessions Confessions, translated by Garry Wills (New York, 2006), p. 27.

58"He remains the same wreck": Dalal, Harilal Gandhi Harilal Gandhi, p. 105.

59"That degrading, dirty": CWMG CWMG, vol. 67, p. 61.

60"For the first time": Ibid., p. 37.

61"I am after all": Cited by Thomson, Gandhi and His Ashramas Gandhi and His Ashramas, p. 228.

62"Not only have I not": CWMG CWMG, vol. 64, p. 175.

63"I am told that you are indifferent": Ibid., vol. 65, p. 301.

64By speaking of failure: Ibid., p. 240.