PUBLISHERS' NOTE
This is an exhaustive, comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date edition of Mr. Gandhi's Speeches
and Writings revised and considerably amplified,
with the addition of a large number of articles from
Young India' and Navajivan (rendered int English.)
The-inclusion of these papers have almost doubled the
size of the old edition and the present collection
runs to about 1,000 pages of well-arranged matter
ranging over the whole period of Mr. Gandhi's public
life. It opens with a succinct biographical sketch of
Mr. Gandhi bringing the account of his life down to
the historic trial and sentence. The Volume begins
with the Indian South African Question and covers his views on indentured labour and Indians in the Colonies, his jail experiences in South Africa, his pronouncements on the Khaira and Champaran affairs, his discourses on Rowlatt Bills and Satyagraha, and finally his Young India and Navajivan articles on the Non-Cooperation movement, including select papers on the Khilafat and Punjab wrongs, the Congress, Swadeshi, Boycott, Charka, National Education and Swaraj. The additional chapters are arranged under suitable headings and include his messages on the eve of and after the arrest, his statement before the court, the trial and judgment.
