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   “
I saw that it was no matter for grief
”: Ibid., p. 320.
    59    
But fresh out of jail
: Ibid., p. 315.
    60    “
I explained that they had come out, not as indentured laborers
”: Bhana and Pachai,
Documentary History of Indian South Africans
, p. 142.
    61    
In assigning to the strikers
:
CWMG
, vol. 12, p. 660.
    62    “
Mr. Gandhi’s performance
”:
African Chronicle
, Dec. 27, 1913, and Jan. 10, 1914. Aiyar was still at his old Durban address in Sept. 1944 when a wartime censorship office intercepted a letter, now on file at the National Archive in Pretoria, that he wrote to the New York office of the Indian National Congress seeking help on the publication of a book on race conflict in South Africa.
    63    “
a charter of our freedom
”:
CWMG
, vol. 12, p. 483.
    64    “
a final settlement
”: Ibid., p. 442.
    65    
These could be achieved
: Ibid., p. 478.
    66    “
We need not fight for votes
”: Ibid., p. 479.
    67    
Finally, he had to concede
: Ibid., p. 477.
    68    
Between 1914 and 1940
: Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie,
From Cane Fields to Freedom: A Chronicle of Indian South African Life
(Cape Town, 2000), pp. 16–17.
    69    
They had an understanding
: Nanda,
Three Statesmen
, p. 467.
    70    
She’d not been consulted
: Interview with Prema Naidoo, Johannesburg, Nov. 2007.
    71    
Gandhi thanked
:
CWMG
, vol. 12, p. 474.
    72    “
I am, as ever
”: Ibid., p. 486.
    73    “
I am under indenture
”: Ibid., p. 472.
    74    “
The Atlantic
”: Rajmohan Gandhi,
Gandhi
, p. 173.
    75    “
I have no Kallenbach”: CWMG
, vol. 15, p. 341, cited in Sarid and Bartolf,
Hermann Kallenbach
, p. 64.

CHAPTER 6: WAKING INDIA
     
    1    
He was more “at home
”:
CWMG
, vol. 13, p. 5.
    2    “
teach them why India
”: Ibid., p. 195.
    3    
He makes a point
: Hindustani, the spoken language of the North Indian street (and Bollywood), derives its vocabulary from both Sanskrit and Persian, through Hindi and Urdu.
    4    “
I should have thought
”:
CWMG
, vol. 21, p. 14.
    5    “
In India, what we want
”: Ibid., p. 73.
    6    “
I do not believe
”: Ibid., vol. 16, p. 282.
    7    “
the malady of foot-touching”:
Ibid., vol. 20, p. 511.
    8    “
In the mere touch
”: Mahadev Desai,
Day-to-Day with Gandhi
, vol. 3, p. 286.
    9    “
At night
”: Fischer,
Life of Mahatma Gandhi
, p. 233.
    10    
Later, his devoted English follower
:
News Chronicle
(London), Sept. 7, 1930.
    11    
Gandhi’s first Indian Boswell
: Mahadev Desai,
Day-to-Day with Gandhi
, vol. 3, p. 265.
    12    “
We have come for the darshan
”: Ibid., p. 264.
    13    “
the people got frightened
”:
CWMG
, vol. 19, p. 374.
    14    “
the four pillars
”: Ibid., vol. 23, p. 53.
    15    
The throngs that turned
: See Amin, “Gandhi as Mahatma,” pp. 290–340.
    16    “
No Indian who aspires
”:
CWMG
, vol. 14, p. 201.
    17    “
morality in action
”: Brown,
Gandhi
, p. 82.
    18    
Those Gandhi called
:
CWMG
, vol. 14, pp. 80, 201.
    19    
Fewer than 1 million
: Ibid., vol. 14, p. 203.
    20    
Seen that way
: Ibid., vol. 13, p. 200.
    21    
Writing to Hermann Kallenbach
: Ibid., vol. 96, p. 212.
    22    “
I am an outsider
”: Nanda,
Gandhi
, p. 165.
    23    
But Gandhi had large ambitions
:
CWMG
, vol. 13, p. 33.
    24    
At Gokhale’s death
: Nanda,
Three Statesmen
, p. 170; also Heimsath,
Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform
, pp. 241–43.
    25    
They took seven vows
:
CWMG
, vol. 13, p. 91.
    26    
About half its original intake
: A thumbnail sketch of Imam Abdul Kader Salim Bawazir, originally of Johannesburg’s Hamidia Mosque, is provided by Gopalkrishna Gandhi,
A Frank Friendship
, p. 75.
    27    “
The object of the Ashram
”:
CWMG
, vol. 13, p. 91.
    28    “
I cannot imagine
”: Ibid., vol. 23, p. 102.
    29    “
an instrument for the revival
”: As quoted by Rajmohan