GANDHI
SEVAGRAM
ASHRAMP.O. SEVAGRAM, DIST.WARDHA 442102, MS, INDIA. Phone: 91-7152-284753
FOUNDED BY MAHATMA GANDHI IN 1936
BIOGRAPHY OF GANDHI
GANDHI - A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY
by Shri B. R. Nanda
GANDHI
- A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY
Shri B. R. Nanda
Table of Contents
- About Gandhi
- Childhood
- Off To England
- Briefless Barrister
- In The 'Dark Continent'
- The Young Politician
- Satyagraha Struggle In South Africa
- The Making Of The Mahatma
- Return To India
- Gandhi's Ashram
- World War I
- Rowlatt Bills
- Nonviolent Non-cooperation
- Arrest And Imprisonment
- Reaction And Recovery
- Declaration Of Complete Independence
- Gandhi-Irwin Pact
- Round Table Conference
- In London
- Resumption Of Struggle
- Campaign Against Untouchability
- A New Deal For The Village
- The New Constitution
- Hindu-Muslim Antagonism
- Nonviolence In A Violent World
- Cripps Mission
- "Quit India"
- Simla Conference
- Cabinet Mission
- Communal Conflagration
- Partition of India
- Mission of Peace
- The End
- Gandhi and Nonviolence
About This Book
This is the first pictorial biography of Gandhi in which the narrative-concise, readable and incisive is illustrated with contemporary photographs and facsimiles of letters, newspaper reports and cartoons, adding up to a fascinating flash-back on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and the struggle for Indian freedom led by him. There is a skilful matching in this book of text and illustrations, of description and analysis and of concrete detail and large perspective. This pictorial biography will revive many memories in those who have lived through the Gandhian era; it should also be of interest to the post-independence generation.
About Author
Shri B. R. Nanda - former Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. His full-scale biography of Mahatma Gandhi has been published in India, Britain and the U.S.A. and translated into French, Spanish, Italian and several other languages
Chapter-13 : Arrest And Imprisonment
The Government seized the opportunity for which it was waiting. On the evening of March 10, 1922, Gandhi was arrested in his ashram. The trial was held
before Broomfield, District and Sessions Judge of Ahmedabad. The British judge behaved with great consideration, nodding respectfully to the accused in the dock before taking
his seat. He acknowledged that Gandhi was in a different category from any person that he had ever tried or was likely to try. Gandhi made his task easy by pleading guilty. He was
sentenced to six years' imprisonment.
An observer noted that Gandhi was not only serene but
'festively joyful' during the 100-minute trial. "So far as the sentence is concerned," he told the judge "I certainly consider that it is as light as any
judge would inflict on me; and so far as the whole proceedings are concerned, I must say that I could not have expected greater courtesy." He was lodged in the Yeravdaprison in Poona. He was not allowed to sleep in the open. He was denied a pillow but he devised one with books and spare clothes. Among the 150 and odd books he read during this term were Henry James' The Varieties of Religious Experience, Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, Buckle's History of Civilization, We lls' Outline of History, Goethe's Faust and Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads. He kept up his daily routine of morning and evening prayers, and spinning. His literary and religious studies which had been neglected in the midst of other activities were resumed. There is no doubt that in spite of occasional pinpricks, prison life proved for Gandhi, as Tagore once put it, "arrest cure".