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Young India, 1919-1922

M.K. Gandhi · 1924 · Scanned text

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Author
M.K. Gandhi
Language
English
Published
1924
Length
474,743 words · about 33 h 15 min
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15 reader sections
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Contents (15)

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Front matter

8 U

1919-1922

By MAHATMA GANDHI

Part I

Th; Written Statement by M. K. Gandhi to the Hunter Com¬ mittee ... II

-Mr. Gandhi’s Oral Evidence ... 16

I Should Suffer too for Conscience’Sake ... 34

Durgadas Adwani ... 45

Clean up I ... 48

Some Proofs of the Universality of Satyagraha ... 50

The 5 th of April and the 13th ... 53

Contempt of Court ... 55

The Satyagraha Week ... 57

To the Members of the All-India Home Rule League ... 60

Satyagraha Week ... 63

PART II The Message of the Punjab ... 69

A Punjab Victim ... 76

-\nother Martial Law Case from the Punjab ... 77 iv CONTENTS

Bhai Paramanand

-(Oontd.)

PAGE

A Hard Case

The Royal Proclamation

■ The Kasur Incident

Two Pictures

The Amritsar Appeals

\f Savarkar Brothers

The Ramnagar Tragedy

A Superintendent's Order

Jallianwalla Bagh .

The Punjab NonjoflScial Report

The Punjab Sentences io8

Sir Rabindranath’s Message

Political Freemasonry no

Our Political Security

The Duty of the Punjabee

“7 ,

General Dyer c

Mr. Pennington’s Objections Answered

Is India Worth Keeping

Mr. Montagu ts, Mrs. Naidu

How the Viceroy Discharges His Trust

The Viceregal Pronouncement

*33

Khilafat Day

All-India Khilafat Conference

England’s Honour at Stake

* 39 '

Khilafat and the Cow Question

The Question of Questions

Why I Have Joined the Khilafat Movement

Mr. Andrews’ Difficulty

151'

Khilafat

Pledges Broken

Mr. Candler’s Open Letter , . ,

Khilafat: Further Questions Answered

Mr. Montagu on the Khilafat Question

The Turkish Question

The Meaning of the Khilafat

V

TOWARDS NON-CO-OPERATION-fCo/ii^i.y

PAGB

The Mahomedan Decision ... 191

How to Work Non-co-operation ... IQf

The Non-co-operation Committee ... 195

.Letter to the Viceroy . ... >97

The Mussalman Representation 20 *

The Law of Majorities ... 207'

At the Call of the Country ... 209

The First of August ... 213

Part III

THE PRINCIPLES OF N 0 N-C 0 - 0 PER. 4 TI 0 N

Letter to the Viceroy ... 219

Non-co-operation: Its Theory and Practice ... 221'

Satyagraha, Civil Disobedience, Passive Resistance and Non-co-operation ... 221

Co-operation and Non-co-operation Defined ...’ 223

Is Non-co-operation Sanyas .' ... 223

The Law of Suffering ... 230

The Inwardness of Non-co-operation ... 234

A Missionary on Non-co- operation ... 234

Crusade against Non-co-operation ... 239

Christ and Non-co-operation ... 239

Did Christ Non-co-operate ... 240

The Inner Meaning of Mahatma Gandhi’sNon-co-operation... 244

Religious Authority for Non-co-operation ... 246

Moral Values , ... 249

Moral Values of Non-co-operation 251

Tolstoy’s Letter to the Liberals ,.. 252

Violence ns. Non-violence V ... 255

Abuse of Hartal ... 257

The Doctrine of the Sword • ... 259

Lucknow Speeches ' ... 264

The Assassination of a Deputy Commissioner y 265

A Triumph of Non-violence ... 271

The Need for Humility ... 277

The Moral Issue ... 279

Bad of Karachi ... 280

Needless Nervousness ... 282 vi -CONTENTS

THE PRINCIPLES OF NON-CO-OPERATIOK“f'Co«W.)

PAGE

Perplexetl

Other Implications ^91

Non-violent Atmosphere ^92

Bew^e of Rumours ^94

Difficulties in the Way ••• 294

An Apt Anecdote *95

TheKirpan ••• 296

Sitting Dhuma 298

Hooliganism 303 -

Difficulties in Our Way 306

Lala Lajpat Rai and the Moderates ... 3^9

What Is Abuse ' 3 II

Democracy w. Mobocracy ... 34

Our Late Tour ' ... 315

Necessity of Discipline 326

Discipline ... 327

Part IV - The Programme Of Non-co-operation

What Should the Voters Do ... 33J

How and When to Act; Details of the 1st Stage . 333

First as to Lawyers ... 335.

Now for the Schools ...' 337

Non-co-operation ...341

I Shall Not Stand for Election 341

Boycott of Councils ' ... 342

An Acid test—The Choice—Do not vote—Why—What the New Councils cannot do-What it Means not to vote 344 Council Elections ' ... 347

An M. L. C. Resigns 348-

The Hallucination of Law Courts ... 349

The Profession of Law and What it Means ... 354

Pt. Motilal on Law Courts ... 359

A Jullunder Circular. ... 363

A defendant’s Plight 364

CONTENTS vi»

THE PROGRAMME OF NON-CO-OPERATION—

Practising Lawyers

PAGE

... 365

A Protest

... 365

Cobblers M. Lawyers

... 369

Practising Lawyers

... 369

About Lawyers

... 372

The Hallucination of Schools and Colleges

... 373

Aligarh

... 377

Non-co-operation in Education

... 377

To the Trustees of the Aligarh College

... 378

To the Parents of the Aligarh Boys

... 381

The National University of Gujrat

... 384

The Gujrat National College

... 384

National Education

... 386

How May Lawyers and Students Help

... 390

To Ydung Bengal

... 391

A Parent's Duty

... 394

Education and Non-co-operation

... 394

Hindu-Mahomedan Unity

... 397

... 405

Qurbani and Hindu-Muslim Unity

... 407

Let Hindus Beware

... 408

Cow Protection

... 409

Save the Cow

... 410

.;. 413

A Pertinent Question

Hindu-Muslim Unity a Camoutiage

... 4>8

The Sikh League

... 422

Brahmins and Non-Brahmins '

... 424

A Non-Brahmin Complaint

... 425

To the Parsis

Parsi Generosity

... 429

Danger Ahead

... 431

To the Moderates

... 432

The National Flag

... 436

Sikh Colour

... 436

Christians and Non-co-operation

.. 439

Christian Awakening

... 440

Sikh Representation

... 441 viii

THE PROGRAMME OF NON-CO-OPERATION—('CnoM./

Three National Cries

PAGE

... 442

An Appeal to Madras

... 444

The Need for Hindustani

... 448

The Cause of the Vernaculars

... 449

An Unmitigated Evil

... 454

The Place of English

... 454

English Education

... 457

English Learning

... 459

Seed of Race

Depressed Classes

... 464

The Sin of Untouchability

... 469

Mr. Gandhi and the Suppressed Classes

... 471

Disappearing Untouchability

... 477

The Panchamas

... 477

The Caste System

... 479

Prejudice and Insolence

.. 483

Swaraj in Swadeshi

... 484

. . 486

Boycott of Goods Ds. Non-co-operation Programme

... 487

The Uses of Khaddar

... 490

The Problem of the Unclothed

. 490

Swadeshi Day by Day

.. 493

The Potency of the Spinning Wheel

... 494

The Music of the Spinning Wheel

.. 497

Khadi in Temples

... 497

In Praise of the Charka

... 497

The Charka in the Islam

... 498

The Charka in the Gita

Hand-Spinning and Hand-weaving

... 502

... 504

Khilafat and Swadeshi

... 506

Swadeshi in the Punjab

... 508

Swadeshi Stores

... 511

The Secret of Swaraj

... 513

The Duty of Merchants

... 514

The Duty of Spinning

... 518

Abusing the Khaddar

... 520

Hand Spinning Again

IX

PAGE

What is Profitable > ... 522

Spinning as Famine Relief ... 527

Famine Insurance ... 531

The Loom vs. the Wheel ... 532

The Message of the Charka ... 533

Organisation for Khaddar Production ... 534

Fraudulent Imitations ... 534

Spinning Wheel and Education—A Confession of Error ... 534 The Poor Man’s Way ... 537

Ten Precious Reasons ... 538

Export of Indian Yarn—A Fallacy ... 539

Some“Ifs” ... 54I

Wanted Experts ... 543

Co-operation ... 545

Indian Economics ... 547

How to Boycott Swadeshi ... 553

Why Burn ... 553

Burning in Bombay ,, 554

Ethics of Destruction ... 555

Part V The Non-co-operation Campaign

Neither a Saint nor a politician ... 565

A Messenger of God ... 566

Blasphemy ... 566

My Ambition ... 567

Ridicule replacing Repression ... 572

From Ridicule to- ... 573

An Advice ... 580

Some Tests ... 583

Susipend Non-co-operation ... 590

Gandhi Old and New ... 593

Divide and Rule ... 599

The Simla Visit ... 604

A Running Sore ... 605

THE PROGRAMME OF NON-CO-OPERATION—f'C'onWj . ' PAGE.

The Poet’s Anxiety

... 608

The Viceroy Speaks

... 613

Officers and Officials

Not Good Enough

Ireland and India

... 621

Lying Placard

... 623

Our Shortcomings

... 623

A Planter’s Letter

... 634

Carping Criticism

... 638

Some Questions and Answers

... 639

Is Non-co-operation Anti-Government

... 640-

Non-co-operation Programme

... 642

The Depressed Classes and Education

... 641

Government and Non-co-operation

... 644

Humanity i>s. Patriotism

... 646.

The Destructive Part

... 647

The Need of the Hour

... 647

Conscience or Expedience

... 649

The Secret of It

My Inconsistency

... 658

A Civilian Replies

... 662

The Great Sentinal

... 668

The Meaning of the Moplah Rising

... 675

No End to My Sorrows

/... 678

His Sorrow Is My Sorrow

... 683

How It Purifies

... 685

The Beauty of It

686'

* Two Students

' Language of the Heart

... 689

A Crop of Difficulties

... 691

The Prince Who is Disloyal

Part VI Miscellaneous

MISCELLANEOUS"-/ ContdJ

Royal Visits: Their Use and Abuse

PAGE

... 701

... 706

The Duke’s Visit ,

... 706

Honour the Prince

... 709

The Prince's Proposed Visit

One Step Enough for me

... 713

The Afghan Bogey

The Frontier Friends

... 719-

Kidnapping at the Border

... 721

Frontier Friends

... 722

The Afghan Alarm

... 724

Condition of Labour

... 727

Wages and Values

Strikes

... 736

Labour’s Mite

... 736

Of Strikes

... 737 ,

Strikes

... 740

Instructions to the Peasants of the United Provinces

... 741

The Zamindars and the Ryots

... 741

The Assam Coolies

... 744

The Shadow of Simla

... 745

Position of Women

... 748

Our Fallen Sisters

... 751

Plague Spots of Lucknow

... 752 -

Fallen Sisters

... 754

... 755

Behold the Woman

.. 756

The Other Side

... 75 &'

Of Tamil Women

... 757

Tamil Sisters Again

... 758

Women’s Part

... ^ 762

Selling Khadi

... 763.

Women as Pickets

... 763

Moulana Abdul Kalam Aaad

A Wife’s Faith

.:. 769

A Municipal Enterprise

... 769

Faithful Few

... 770

Worthy of Imitation

A Municipal Model

... 772 xii CONTENTS

MISCELLANEOUS--^'6''o?iirfj

PAGE

Well Done Nagpur ,,, 772

Imitate Lahore ... 773

-Chirala Perala 775

Municipalities, Beware ... 777

Ahmedabad and Surat ... 777

The Pen or the Sword ... 779

A Confession of Faith ... 783

Lokamanya , . 788

Remniscences of Lokamanya ... 789

Introspection ., 791

India and the British Committee ... 794

Foreign Propaganda ... 796

Hinduism ... gpo

The Meaning of the Empire ... go8

For God, King and Country ... gio

The Curse of Betting grz

The Curse of Betting ... 814

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