E-Book - Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi – His Life & Timescasteless India. He yearned for the day when there would be only one caste andBrahmans ns would marry Harijans. 'I am a social revolutionist,' he asserted."Violence is bred by inequality, non-violence by equality.' Gandhi's religionmerged with his sociology.I said I knew that the mounting prejudice against coloured people in SouthAfrica disturbed him; he had fought it for twenty years. 'But I hope', I added,'you will do nothing violent in this connection. You are a violent man.' Helaughed. 'Some of your fasts are violent,' I continued.You want me to confine myself to violent words,' he commented.Yes'.'I do not know when I am going to fast,' he explained. 'It is God who determinesthat. It comes to me suddenly. But I will not act rashly. I have no desire to die.'Sudhir Ghosh, a youthful Cambridge University graduate, came in to bid Gandhigoodbye. He was going to England and the Mahatma was giving him a letter ofintroduction to Prime Minister Attlee. Gandhi's go-between with the CabinetMission, Ghosh had so distinguished himself by his intelligent and gracioushandling of delicate diplomatic tasks that Gandhi was asking him to be hisliaison with Attlee, Cripps, Pethick-Lawrence and others in London. Like many ahead of state, Gandhi wished to be his own 'foreign minister'. Usually, theofficial foreign minister resents the intrusion.That afternoon, before the prayer meeting, an Indian in his twentiesapproached me and said he was the editor of a Hindu Mahasabha weeklypublished in Poona and would I give him a message. I said I did not approve ofthe Hindu Mahasabha any more than I approved of the Moslem League; bothstood for religion in politics. 'The Hindu Mahasabha,' I declared with someacerbity, 'stands for Hindu supremacy. Do you like white supremacy?' Weparted.Hundreds of Poona citizens stood in a field on the other side of the clinic's lowfence while Gandhi and his friends conducted the services on a woodenplatform on this side of the fence. During the singing it commenced to rain;www.mkgandhi.org Page 481