An Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth
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630 ‘feeling still more at sea’ added in the English translation.
631 ‘and the story of my long quest after it’ added in the English translation.
632 ‘to the country’ added in the English translation.
633 ‘be it ever so small’ added in the English translation.
634 ‘of power machinery’ added in the English translation.
635 ‘to a certain extent’ to add.
636 The conference met in Ahmedabad from 27 to 29 August 1920. For MKG’s speech on non-cooperation, see CWMG, vol. 18, pp. 200–03.
637 ‘not a little to the personality of’ added in the English translation. In the original ‘due to’.
638 The special session was held on 7, 8 and 9 September 1920; on the 7th was the meeting of the Subjects Committee.
639 ‘My vocabulary on the subject was still in the process of formation.’ Added in the English translation.
640 Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin (1888–1958), erudite scholar of Persian, Arabic and Urdu, president, Indian National Congress (1923, 1940–46), founded the Urdu journals Al-Hilal and Al-Balagh, first education minister of independent India (1947–58).
641 ‘learned’ to add.
642 For MKG’s speeches on non-cooperation at the Calcutta session, see CWMG, vol. 18, pp. 245–55.
643 Held in December 1920.
644 Lokmanya Tilak passed away on 31 July 1920. For MKG’s obituary of him, see CWMG, vol. 18, pp. 110–11.
645 ‘non-violent’ to add.
646 For the draft resolution, see CWMG, vol. 19, pp. 182–85, and for the resolution as passed, pp. 576–78.
647 ‘where it came up for final disposal’ added in the English translation.
648 ‘it being contended that there should be no restriction upon the means to be adopted’ added in the English translation.
649 ‘skeletons’ here refers to emaciated and impoverished Indians.
650 ‘practical’ added in the English translation.
651 In a letter to C.F. Andrews dated 29 November 1928 MKG wrote, ‘I have no notion when the whole thing will be finished, even though I am omitting many important events and trying to hurry on to the Non-co-operation days. I want to break off after the special session at Calcutta, because the events are too fresh and there are so many contemporaries whom I must describe if I am to write further. I feel too that it would be advisable for me to stop at the stage for thenceforward my life has been too public. Therefore there is no need for further elucidation. And then of course there is Young India, a clear mirror through which anybody who cares can look at me.’ CWMG, vol. 38, p. 122.
652 ‘meaningfully’ to add.
653 ‘These relations are still fresh.’ To add.
654 ‘veteran’ added in the English translation.
655 ‘during the past seven years’ added in the English translation.
656 ‘plain’ added in the English translation.
657 ‘pains’ in the first edition.
658 ‘This I experience at every moment.’ To add.
659 ‘triple’ added in the English translation.
660 ‘as one’ in the first edition.
661 ‘And it is a fact of experience that without such humility salvation is ever impossible.’ To add.
Editor’s Acknowledgements
To my Ashram colleagues, Kinnari Bhatt and Kartikeya Sarabhai, for making it possible—with all my many limitations—to share the Ashramic space.
Ramachandra Guha, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Sunil Khilnani, I thank you for reading a draft of the work and for writing an endorsement. Ram with his extraordinary grasp over archival material scattered over three continents has answered my queries. Ajay Skaria reads Gandhi also in Gujarati and I hope that he would hear echoes of our long-distance conversations in this work. Thank you, Ajay. Arindam Chakrabarti, a deep reader of texts, has read the draft of this work and our conversations on the nature of act of reading has shaped my understanding of Gandhi’s engagement with philosophical texts and acts.
Harsh Sethi, Malavika and Tejbir Singh have been a source of friendship, warmth, cynical hope and camaraderie. Thank you, Seminar.
Rajmohan Gandhi and Gopalkrishna Gandhi have provided the much needed moral compass in times of ignorance and darkness.
The archivists at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple have answered my queries and shared their knowledge.
Richa Burman at Penguin Random House, thank you, for your patient and careful reading. Indrani Dasgupta, thank you.
To Ashis Nandy I owe much. A teacher and guide, he has become a wise elder, teaching me to befriend my daemons, to live with my cultural anxieties. Thank you.
Suhrud, Megha and Katyayani, thank you for your love.
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