9. Letter of 18 November 1939 from Linlithgow to Zetland quoted in S. Gopal, Nehru (New Delhi: Oxford), vol. 1, p. 258.
10. To Louis Fischer, 4-9 June 1942; 82: 403.
11. Conversation on 11 Aug. 1950 between Patel and Narhari Parikh, recorded in the Diary of Maniben Patel, entry dated 11 Aug. 1950.
12. Parikh, Sardar Patel, 2: 411.
13. Harijan, 4 Feb. 1939; 75: 478.
14. Letter from Rajagopalachari to J.B.L. Munro, 25 December 1939, Munro Papers.
15. The Hindu, 18 Oct. 1939.
16. Narayan Desai, Bliss Was It…, pp. 68-71.
17. Narayan Desai, Bliss Was It…, pp. 68-71.
18. Quoted in Virendra Prakash, ‘Hindutva’ Demystified (New Delhi: Virgo, 2002), p. 72.
19. See letter from Gandhi to Hyat Khan, 1 Nov. 1939, 77:72; and telegram from Gandhi to Hyat Khan, 25 May 1940, 78: 246.
20. Merriam, Allen H., Gandhi vs. Jinnah (Calcutta: Minerva, 1980), pp. 64-5.
21. John Glendevon, The Viceroy at Bay (London: Collins, 1971), p. 119.
22. Merriam, Gandhi vs. Jinnah, pp. 67.
23. Quoted in C.M. Naim (ed.), Iqbal, Jinnah and Pakistan (Syracuse: Syracuse University, 1979), p. 186.
24. Arsh Malsian, Abul Kalam Azad (New Delhi: Publications Division, 1976).
25. Merriam, Gandhi vs. Jinnah, pp. 66.
26. H.V. Hodson, The Great Divide (London: Hutchinson, 1959), p. 89.
27. Telegram from Jinnah, 12 July 1942, in S.S. Peerzada (ed.), Leaders’ Correspondence with Mr. Jinnah (Bombay: Taj Office, 1944), p. 213.
28. 15 March, Ramgarh; 78: 59.
29. Article by G.D. Birla in Chandrashanker Shukla (ed.), Incidents in Gandhiji’s Life (Bombay: Vora, 1949), pp. 26-30.
30. Article by G.D. Birla in Chandrashanker Shukla (ed.), Incidents in Gandhiji’s Life, pp. 26-30.
31. The Hindu, 9 June 1940.
32. Discussion in Delhi, 3-7 July 1940; 78: 403.
33. Discussion in Delhi, 3-7 July 1940; 78: 393.
34. Discussion in Delhi, 3-7 July 1940; 78: 393.
35. Discussion in Delhi, 3-7 July 1940; 78: 395.
36. Harijan, 28 July 1940; 79: 33.
37. Discussion in Delhi, 3-7 July 1940; 78: 403.
38. 22 June 1940; 78: 343-5.
39. Discussion in Delhi, 3-7 July 1940: 78: 394.
40. Discussion in Delhi, 3-7 July 1940; 78: 401.
41. Quoted by Pyarelal in Pyarelal & Sushila Nayar, In Gandhiji’s Mirror (New Delhi: OUP, 1991), p. 30.
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42. Harijan, 4 Aug. 1940; 79: 58.
43. Harijan, 4 Aug. 1940; 79: 58.
44. Harijan, 13 July 1940; 78: 416.
45. See cable of 13 Aug. 1940, Harijan, 18 Aug. 1940; 79: 117.
46. The Hindu, 12 Aug. 1940.
47. Parikh, Sardar Patel, 2: 434-6.
48. Quoted in Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 476.
49. Speech of 15 Sept. 1940; 79: 221.
50. Speech in Bombay, 15 Sept. 1940; 79: 221.
51. AICC resolution passed on 16 Sept. 1940; 79: 207.
52. 79: 360-1.
53. Manohar Diwan.
54. Harijan, 20 Oct. 1940; 79: 307-8.
55. Harijan, 20 Oct. 1940: 79: 310.
56. Azad, India Wins Freedom (Calcutta:, Orient Longmans, 1957), p. 41.
57. Harijan, 13 July 1940; old 72: 259-60.
58. The Hindu, 23 October 1941; 81: 219
59. Speech in Bombay, 16 Sept. 1940; 79: 226-7.
60. Statement to the press, 6 July 1941; 80: 348.
61. Letter of 16 Oct. 1941; 81: 205.
62. M.K. Gandhi, Letters to Sardar Patel (Ahmedabad: Navajivan, 1957), p. 158.
63. Linlithgow to Hope, 8 May 1941, Linlithgow Papers, India Office Library, London; & B. Shiva Rao, New Delhi correspondent of The Hindu and the intermediary between Hyat Khan and Srinivasan, to author, New Delhi, 1974.
64. 81: 334.
65. Remark of 4 Dec. 1941; 81: 334.
66. To Working Committee, Bardoli, on or before 30 Dec. 1941; 81: 396.
67. Harijan, 25 Jan. 1942; 81: 433-34.
68. Harijan, 25 Jan. 1942; 81: 430.
69. Devadas Gandhi Papers.
70. Harijan, 25 Jan. 1942; 81: 432-33.
71. Ramnarayan Chaudhary, Bapu As I Saw Him (Ahmedabad: Navajivan, 1959), p. 217.
72. Harijan, 25 Jan. 1942; 81: 432-4.
73. Harijan, 15 Feb. 1942, & Harijan Sevak, 22 Feb. 1942; 82: 7, 26.
74. Narayan Desai, Bliss Was It To Be Young With Gandhi, p. 85.
75. Letter of 14 March 1942; 82: 54.
76. Letter of 6 April 1942; 82: 173.
77. Sitaramayya, History of the Congress, vol. 2, p. 315.
78. Article by Birla in Shukla (ed.), Incidents in Gandhiji’s Life, pp. 26-7.
79. As recalled by Gandhi to Louis Fischer, 4 June 1942; 82: 395.
80. See Gandhi’s letter to Patel, 13 April 1942, in M.K. Gandhi, Letters to Sardar Patel, p. 164, and Parikh, Sardar Patel, 2: 459.
81. Penderel Moon (ed.), Wavell: A Viceroy’s Journal (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 33.
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82. Merriam, Gandhi vs. Jinnah, p. 77.
83. Quoted in C.H. Philips and M.D. Wainwright (eds.), The Partition of India (London: Allen and Unwin, 1970), p. 214.
84. S. Gopal, Nehru, vol. 1, p. 284.
85. See Gopal, Nehru, vol. 1, p. 288; Azad, India Wins Freedom, pp. 64-7; & Lohia, Guilty Men of India’s Partition, (Allahabad: Kitabistan, 1960), pp. 24-6.
86. Hodson, The Great Divide, p. 103.
87. Harijan, 7 June 1942; 82: 401.
88. From Gandhi’s draft resolution for Working Committee sent ‘before 24 April’ 1942; 82: 233.
89. Harijan, 7 June 1942; 82: 345.
90. Harijan, 14 June 1942; 82: 377.
91. 82: 338.
92. Letter of 3 Aug. 1942; 83: 163.
93. Talks with Fischer, 4-9 June 1942; 82: 420.
94. Article in Harijan, 3 May 1942; 82: 236.
95. Talks with Fischer, 4-9 June 1942; 82: 403.
96. Harijan, 14 May 1942; 82: 279.
97. 82: 231-2.
98. N. Mansergh & E.W.R. Lumby (eds), The Transfer of Power (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, Twelve volumes, 1970-83), vol. 2, p. 162, or TOP 2: 162.
99. Working Committee resolution of 1 May 1942; 82:393.
100. J.B. Kripalani, Gandhi: His Life and Thought (New Delhi: Publications Division, 1970), p. 201fn.
101. Parikh, Sardar Patel, 2: 467.
102. Letter of 3 May 1942 in Nandurkar (ed.), Sardarshri ke Patra, 2: 301.
103. Letter of 5 May 1942; 82: 260-1.
104. Letter of 24 April 1942: 82: 234.
105. See Desai to Patel, 15 July 1942, in Nandurkar (ed.), Bapu, Sardar, and Mahadevbhai, pp. 255-8, and letter from Gandhi to Nehru, 13 July 1942; 82: 97-8.
106. Harijan, 28 June 1942; 83: 42-3.
107. Interview with Congressmen, 15 May 1942; 82: 284.
108. Interview with The Hindu, 28 May 1942: 82: 341.
109. 82: 216.
110. 82: 347.
111. 82: 353.
112. 82: 360.
113. 82: 399-400.
114. 82: 367.
115. Harijan, 31 May 1942; 82: 316.
116. 82: 414.
117. The Hindu, 16 June 1942.
118. Letter of July 1942 quoted in Reginald Coupland, The Indian Problem, Oxford, 1942, p. 337.
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119. The Hindu, 25 April 1942.
120. The Hindu, 31 May 1942.
121. Letter of 5 July 1942, Rajagopalachari Papers.
122. The Hindu, 10 July 1942.
123. 82: 374.
124. Quoted in Narayan Desai, Bliss Was It…, p. v.
125. Harijan, 14 June 1942; 82: 378.
126. 82: 385.
127. See letter to Rajagopalachari, 20 July 1942, and telegram to Rajagopalachari, 7 Aug. 1942; 83: 125-6 & 180-1.
129. 82: 421-2.
130. 83: 27.
131. Harijan, 21 June 1942; 83: 18-9.
132. Article of 28 June in Harijan, 5 July 1942; 83: 58.
133. 83: 67-8.
134. Statement of 5 Aug. 1942; 83: 450-1.
135. Statement to the press, 5 Aug. 1942; 83: 174-6.
136. 83: 178.
137. 83: 445-7.
138. 83: 128.
139. Nichi Nichi, Yomiuri, and Miyako. See 83: 114.
140. Article written on 18 July 1942 in Harijan, 26 July 1942; 83: 114-16.
141. Harijan, 2 August 1942; 83: 145.
142. See entry dated 15 July 1942 in Maniben Patel, Diary of Maniben Patel, Patel Papers, Ahmedabad.
143. TOP 2: 186.
144. P.N. Chopra (ed.), Quit India (Faridabad: 1976), pp. 196-8.
145. Parikh, Sardar Patel, 2: 474-7.
146. R. Gandhi, Patel (Ahmedabad: Navajivan, 1990), p. 316.
147. Lord Moran, Winston Churchill (London: Constable, 1966), p. 52.
148. 83: 187.
149. Kalelkar, Gandhi Charitra Kirtan (Ahmedabad: Navajivan, 1970), p. 42.
150. 83: 186: 200.
151. 83: 201-6.
152. See Gandhi’s letter to Wavell, 9 March 1944; 84: 25-6.
153. Narayan Desai, Bliss Was It…, pp. 88-9.
154. Tendulkar, Mahatma, 6: 216.
155. Lord Moran, Winston Churchill, p. 52.
156. Patel’s recollection in a speech in Bombay on 27 June 1945 published in Hindustan Times, 2 July 1945.
157. Abul Kalam Azad, India Wins Freedom (Calcutta: Orient Longmans, 1959, 1988 edition) pp. 88-9.
158. Sushila Nayar in Savita Singh (ed.), Kasturba (New Delhi: Gandhi Smriti, 1994), p. 54.
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159. Linlithgow to Churchill, 31 August 1942. Linlithgow Papers, F 125/58, India Office Library, London.
160. Quoted in S. Gopal, Nehru, 1: 300.
161. Quoted in S. Gopal, Nehru, 1: 301.
162. Unnamed Raj official quoted in Brecher, Nehru, p. 290.
163. Letter of 10 Aug. 1942; 83: 208-10.
164. Letter of 12 Sept. 1942 in G.M. Nandurkar (ed.), Bapu, Sardar ane Mahadevbhai (Ahmedabad), p. 363.
165. Pyarelal and Sushila Nayar, In Gandhiji’s Mirror (New Delhi: Oxford, 1991), p. 60.
166. Telegram of 15 Aug. 1942; 83: 215.
167. Letter of 5 Nov. 1942; 83: 222.
168. Letter of 31 Dec. 1942; 83: 274-6.
169. Letter of 29 Jan. 1943; 83: 279-81.
170. Letter of 5 Feb. 1943; TOP 3: 588.
171. Sushila Nayar, Bapu ki Karavaas Kahani (New Delhi: Sasta Sahitya Mandal, 1950), p. 316.
172. Remarks on 8 June 1947, from Manu Gandhi’s diary; 95: 234.
173. The Hindu, 4 March 1943.
174. 83: 299-300.
175. 83: 301.
176. Letter of 21 May 1943; 83: 311-12.
177. Letter of 8 Feb. 1943; TOP 3: 639.
178. TOP 4: 381.
179. Quoted by Pattabhi Sitaramayya, a Working Committee member held in the Keep, in his Feathers & Stones (Bombay: 1946), p. 44.
180. Letter of 14 April 1944 from Birla to Devadas Gandhi, Devadas Gandhi Papers. See also J. Ahmad (ed.), Speeches & Writings of Mr. Jinnah (Lahore: Ashraf, 1947), vol. 2, and S.S. Peerzada (ed.), Leaders’ Correspondence with Mr. Jinnah (Bombay: Taj Office, 1944).
181. Kripalani, Autobiography (typescript), Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi.
182. Letter of 3 Oct. 1944 quoted in Gopal, Nehru, 1: 297.
183. S. Gopal (ed.), Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru (New Delhi: Orient Longman), vol. 13, p. 511.
184. See Rajmohan Gandhi, Patel, pp. 329-32.
185. See Rajmohan Gandhi, Patel, pp. 336-7.
186. Chief Commissioner’s Office, Bombay, File No. 46, Secret, Home Department, Special Branch (6), 1943-44; 83: 472-4.
187. 83: 50.
188. 83: 435-5.
189. Letter of 15 July 1943 to Additional Home Secretary, Government of India; 83: 381-2.
190. Letter of 26 Oct. 1943 to Additional Home Secretary; 83: 426-8.
191. Letter of 26 Oct. 1943 to Additional Home Secretary; 83: 426-8.
192. Letter of 4 March 1944; 84: 21-2.
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193. Letter of 19 Jan, 1943; 83: 276.
194. 84: 25-31.
195. 84: 13-14 & 25-31.
196. 84: 40-41.
197. Mukul Kalarthi, Ba and Bapu, p. 49.
198. Sushila Nayar in Savita Singh (ed.), Kasturba, p. 58.
199. Sushila Nayar in Savita Singh (ed.), Kasturba, p. 56.
200. Sushila Nayar in Savita Singh (ed.), Kasturba, p. 59.
201. Letter of Gandhi to Wavell, 9 March 1944; 84: 25-26.
202. Letter of 4 March 1944 from Gandhi to Additional Home Secretary; 84: 22-24.
203. 84: 22-24.
204. 83: 439.
205. Letter of 6 Jan. 1943; 83: 439-40.
206. Devadas Gandhi, Ba, Bapu aur Bhai (New Delhi: Sasta Sahitya Mandal, 1950), pp. 8-9.
207. Sushila in Pyarelal & Sushila Nayar, In Gandhiji’s Mirror, p. 75.
208. ‘She was “Ba”’ by Prabhavati, quoted in www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/gandhicomesalive/chap06.htm
209. 95: 233-34.
210. Letter of 9 March 1944; 84: 25-26.
211. Mukul Kalarthi, Ba and Bapu, p. 118.
212. Remarks on 8 June 1947, from Manu Gandhi’s diary; 95: 234.
213. Letter of 1 April 1944 to Additional Home Secretary; 84: 36-7.
214. Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase (Ahmedabad: Navajivan, Ahmedabad, 1956), vol. 1, p. 575.
215. See Gopi Krishna, Mahatma Gandhi and the Kundalini Process, http://www.icrcanada.org/gandhi.html
216. 84: 20-21.
217. Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 12.
218. Sushila Nayar, Mahatma Gandhi’s Last Imprisonment (New Delhi: Har-Anand, 1996), pp. 385-91.
219. 84: 44.
220. Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 14.
221. 84: 44-45.
222. Penderel Moon (ed.), Wavell, p. 78.
Chapter 14. Rejected
1. Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase, vol. 1, p. 104.
2. See letter from Gandhi to Mira, 11 June 1944; 84: 101.
3. 84: 442-43.
4. 84: 206.
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5. 84: 141.
6. Nilam Parikh, Gandhiji’s Lost Jewel, p. 92.
7. Nilam Parikh, Gandhiji’s Lost Jewel, p. 93.
8. Anand Hingorani, Bapu ke Ashirvad (New Delhi: Publications Division, 2000), p. xvi.
9. Letter of 6 July 1944; 84: 153-54.
10. 84: 142.
11. 84: 207.
12. Remark of 9 July 1944 in Panchgani; 84: 215.
13. 84: 112.
14. 84: 215.
15. 84: 147-51.
16. Remarks of 15 July 1944; 84: 192.
17. Sitanshu Das, Subhas: A Political Biography (New Delhi: Rupa, 2000), pp. 574-75.
18. A.H. Merriam, Gandhi vs. Jinnah, pp. 92-107.
19. 84: 454, referring to TOP 4: 1138-91.
20. 84: 272.
21. Letter of 15 Aug. 1944; 84: 296.
22. 84: 147.
23. See 84: 147.
24. 84: 197.
25. 84: 139-40.
26. Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 86. See also David Hardiman, Gandhi in his Time and Ours, pp. 176-77.
27. 84: 392-93.
28. Hector Bolitho, Jinnah (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press), p. 148.
29. Azad, India Wins Freedom, p. 93.
30. Penderel Moon (ed.), Wavell, p. 87.
31. Letter of 23 Sept. 1944 to Jinnah; 84: 406.
32. Press interview, 28 Sept. 1944; 84: 422.
33. 84: 404.
34. 84: 425.
35. Hector Bolitho, Jinnah, p. 152.
36. Letter of 13 Nov. 1944; 85: 153.
37. Pyare
lal, Last Phase, 1: 67.
38. Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: pp. 104-5.
39. Quoted in Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 11.
40. Penderel Moon (ed.), Wavell, p. 120.
41. J.B. Kripalani, Fateful Year (Bombay: Vora, 1948).
42. Hindustan Times, 2 July 1945.
43. Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 132.
44. Letter of 8 July 1946 in Penderel Moon (ed.), Wavell, p. 494.
45. See A.I. Singh, The Origins of the Partition of India (New Delhi: Oxford, 1987), pp. 121-23.
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46. See letter of 12 August 1945 in M.K. Gandhi, Letters to Sardar Patel, p. 172.
47. See letter of 12 August 1945 in M.K. Gandhi, Letters to Sardar Patel, p. 172.
48. Bombay Chronicle, 1 November 1945.
49. Letter of 3 January 1946 in M.K. Gandhi, Letters to Sardar Patel, p. 175.
50. See Durga Das (ed.), Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. 2 (Ahmedabad: Navajivan), pp. 1-9.
51. Letter of 27 November 1945 in G.M. Nandurkar (ed.), Sardar Patel Centenary Volumes (Ahmedabad: 1974-78), vol. 4, p. 16
52. Letters in July 1946 in M.K. Gandhi, Letters to Sardar Patel, p. 184.
53. On 24 August 1945. Penderel Moon (ed.), Wavell: A Viceroy’s Journal, p. 164.
54. B.C. Dutt, Mutiny of the Innocents (Bombay: Sindhu, 1971), p. 137.
55. See letter of 24 February 1946 from Patel to Gandhi in Nandurkar (ed.), Bapu, Sardar ane Mahadevbhai, p. 309.
56. 89: 441
57. B.C. Dutt, Mutiny of the Innocents, pp. 177-84.
58. Sudhir Ghosh, Gandhi’s Emissary (Bombay: Rupa, 1967), pp. 68-69.
59. Letter written before 24 April 1946 to Munnalal Shah; 90: 304.
60. Remark in Bihar on 24 April 1947; 87: 350.
61. Harijan, 21 July 1946; 91: 272-73.
62. File 4/33, Pyarelal Papers.
63. Kripalani, Gandhi: His Life and Thought (New Delhi: Publications Division, 1970), pp. 248-50.
64. Statement of 1 June 1947 in Tendulkar, Mahatma, 8: 3.
65. See remarks by Maniben Patel in Durga Das (ed.), Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. 10, p. xxxviii, and Durga Das, India from Curzon to Nehru (London: Collins, 1969), p. 230.
66. See entry dated 3 May 1946, Diary of Maniben Patel.
67. See letter of 29 July 1946 from Patel to D.P. Mishra in Durga Das (ed.), SPC 3: 153-54.
68. Moon (ed.), Wavell, p. 269.
69. See Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 201-2.
70. Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 210.
71. Moon (ed.), Wavell, p. 246.
72. Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 204.
73. Pyarelal, Last Phase, 1: 204.
74. Tendulkar, Mahatma, 7: 129.
75. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper, 1967), p. 58.
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