Chapter 10

1. K. Swaminathan (ed.), The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. X (New Delhi: The Publications Division, Govt. of India, 1963), pp. 37–38, and Vol. LXXXV, p. 206; and Raghavan Iyer (ed.), The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. I (Gloucestershire, UK Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 283–286.

2. Collected Works, Vol. LXXXV, pp. 32–33; and Raghavan Iyer, pp. 399–400.

3. Collected Works, p. 237.

4. Ibid., Vol. XC, pp. 527–28.

5. Ibid., p. 391; Gandhi wrote: ‘It was the British government that constituted the Harijans into separate class. To the popular government, all poor and illiterate people are one, or should be. It cannot distin guish between high and low, between this religion and that, for all are Indian.’

6. Ibid., Vol. XXIV, p. 92.

7. Ibid. Vol. LXXXVIII, p. 58. It mentions non-violence, truth, non-stealing, brahmacharya and nonpossession as its five basic postulates.

8. Ibid., Vol. XXIX, p. 95.

9. Ibid., Vol. IX, pp. 224–227; and Vol. LXIX, pp. 69–70.

10. Ibid., Vol. LXXXIII, pp. 17–18. He had made this remark in May 1947.

11. Ibid., Vol. XC, pp. 527–28. See his last testament.