Young India, Viking Press, 1924-1926

by Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

CONTENTS

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Publish's note	xiv
For the readers past and present of Young India	1
Young India and Navajivan	3
I. NATIONAL UNITY
Campaign of misrepresentation	9
What is Hinduism?	12
A full stop	14
The starving Moplah	17
Pandit Malaviyaji on Moplah relief	19
Hindu Moslem tension: its cause and cure	21
What may Hindus do	33
The Arya Samajists	41
Arya Samajists again	43
The Bhopal apostacy circular	52
Apostacy after embracing Islam	52
Bolshevism or discipline	61
Gulbarga gone mad	63
The question of questions	67
Hindu Muslim unity	73
All about the fast	77
Notice to readers	83
Change of heart	84
Mahatma Gandhi’s fast	84
Maulana Mahomed Ali’s statement	86
Maulana Shaukat Ali’s statement	88
Our duty	89
A christian’s blessing	90
Barodada’s message	91
Swami Shraddanand statement	92
My refuge	92
The fast the God has chosen	93
How the fast was broken	96
A welcome message from the West	100
The inner meaning of the fast	101
Hymns on Mahatmaji’s fast	109
An interesting conversation	114
The latest fast	123
The breaking of the fast	126
The lesson of the fast	127
The physical effects of fasting	129
After the fast	134
The Unity Conference	138
Where it was wanting	140
Beneath the ridge	142
The edict of toleration	143
The Metropolitan’s contribution	146
Pt. Gokarannath Misra	146
An impression of the conference	147
The conference at Delhi	150
Mr. Asaf Ali	151
Pt. Dina Nath	152
Mr. Shaidva	153
Three welcome paragraphs	153
The conference and after	155
The Hindu Moslem conference	158
Dr. S. K. Datta	159
Sjt. Satischanadra Mukerjee	161
Barodada’s dream	162
The trumpet of a prophecy	163
The unity problem	164
An importanat letter	166
Towards unity	168
Resolutions passed at the unity conference	169
The Kohat visit	174
The Kohat tragedy	177
Kohat refugees	180
Kohat Hindus	181
Still at it	183
My Punjab diary	185
On another’s land	195
Hindu Moslem question	197
The embargo	202
My crime	205
Conundrums	207
Interdining again	211
The science of surrender	213
That eternal question	216
The order of Hindu Moslem unity	219
II. NON-CO-OPERATION CONGRESS AND SWARAJ
School masters and lawyers	225
Is it non-co-operation	231
Non-inconsistent	231
Parody of religion	235
Empire goods boycott	236
Boycott foreign cloth	240
The plight of teachers	245
Below the belt	248
Wanted excitement	250
The students and Malabar	255
Suspension or repeal	259
King can do no wrong	260
Heart unity	262
Suspend or abandon	263
What is seditious	265
National education	268
The national week	272
No sign yet	274
Sentimental nonsense	276
To Gandhiji	278
Is it inconsistancy?	285
Teacher’s condition	288
Fate of non-co-operators	293
National education	296
A hotch-pot of questions	298
Councils entry	303
Malaviyaji and Lalaji	303
To what state fallen?	305
Not despondent	306
Objections considered	307
Its meaning	310
The position of non-co-operators	314
Message to the students	315
Students and non-co-operation	318
Congress organisation	321
Digging my own grave	325
All-India Congress Committee	326
An appropriate querry	328
The acid test	330
To the members of the All-India Congress Committee	334
Defeated and humbled	339
The All-India Congress Committee	347
Quick response	352
Councils entry	355
My position	357
Rules to be observed	358
Bara Bazar congressmen	359
An appeal to the nation	361
Who shall be President?	366
The Lokamanya anniversary	369
What about the President?	372
Lowest common measure	373
When will it end?	374
Fraud by congressmen	375
The realities	376
Dr. Annie Besant’s declaration	383
For unity	384
Spinning franchise	387
An important letter	388
How to work?	391
The forthcoming meeting	392
Our helplessness	392
Is it compulsion	393
Public debts	394
The joint statement	395
An interview	397
The agreement	398
On trial	403
Shall we unite	407
The no-changers plight	411
May god help	413
At Belgaum	416
Breach of faith	417
An important omission	418
Not even half-mast	419
Congress Presidential Address	424
Ormuzd and Ahriman	448
Two addresses	450
Typical	451
Belgaum impressions	453
How to do it	460
Kathiawad conference address	462
The Working Committee	479
A notice	481
Confession of Faith	484
Interrogatories answered	487
In case of misappropriation	491
A. I. K. B.’s resolutions	492
Is a Swarajist a congressman?	493
God and congress	494
My position	498
Quantity v. quality	503
Illuminating documents	505
Splitting hairs	511
A remarkable address	512
A baseless charge	515
Corruption	516
Are we ready	519
Humbled pride	522
At Darjeeling	523
Calcutta’s Mayor	531
Reply to Lord Birkenhead	536
A deceptive speech	537
The spinning franchise	540
Congress and political parties	542
The Congress unemployed	546
Congress corruption	549
Do I hate Englishmen?	549
Why not surrender completely?	552
Swaraj or death	555
A string of questions	561
Is it over confidence	563
The All-India Congress Committee	564
A. I. C. C. resolutions	568
Interrogatories	571
A true congressman	574
On the eve	577
The annual demonstration	578
My political programme	581
III. CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAMME
The whisper of the wheel	587
Living on spinning and weaving	589
Khadi umbrellas	590
The wheel to the rescue	591
Luxury not power	594
Luxury and laziness	595
What is a spinner?	597
Untouchability and Swaraj	600
Chhop or spinning competition	602
Liberals and khaddar	603
Machine spinning v. Hand spinning	604
Charkha at 86	605
False pride	606
Spinning resolution	607
One programme	610
A plea for mills	613
Cloth or steel?	615
To P. B.	616
Waste of energy	617
Difficulties in the way	621
Two sides	623
Wheelless spinning	625
A badge of subservience	628
Mill khadi	629
For fallen humanity	629
Two scenes	631
Handspinning at Adyar	633
Eleven days in Madras	635
Sir Prabhashankar to spin	642
Cotton collection	643
The revolving wheel	643
Non-brahmins	644
An appeal	645
Untouchability and its implications	648
Pertinent questions	653
On another’s land	657
Well done	660
Waste of yarn	660
Towards unity	661
A silent worker	662
Swadeshi and nationalism	663
The handloom	665
Ryot’s cry	668
National service and pay	671
Khadi Prathisthan	673
Not man’s work	676
Spinning in schools	678
Spinning in Darjeeling	679
All-India Spinners Association	681
Snares of Satan	681
Hookworm and charkha	684
Spinning at a government institute	686
A village experiment	688
The constitution of the All India Spinner’s Association 694	694
All-India Spinner’s Association	699
Debts of honour	703
Subsidiary industry par excellence	704
Boycott v. construction	705
A dilemma	708
The Poet and the charkha	709
The naked truth	714
Government servants and A. I. S. A.	716
National education	717
A student’s questions	719
A year’s work	722
In the grip of untouchability	725
The Congress Khadi exhibition	727
Spinning in Municipal schools	730
The spinning’ wheel in Mysore	733
Spinning at Sabarmati Ashram	734
961 yards per hour	736
For juveniles	737
A repudiation	738
Still shirking the issue	741
The Poet and the wheel	743
Sacrificial spinning	745
The national week	745
Spinning in municipal schools	747
He wont spin	748
Does India want prohibition	751
Hinduism of to-day	753
Pandit Nehru and khaddar	757
The morals of machinery	760
The national week at Satyagraha Ashram	762
Drugs, drink and devil	765
For and against Khadi	768
Total prohibition	772
Prohibition and Madras government	773
A diehard	775
My Kamadhenu	777
The cobwebs of ignorance	781
Spinning an art	788
National education	789
Resourcefulness	791
A clever cotton spinner	792
Co-operation in spinning	793
Some knotty points	795
From the frying pan	798
The hydra-headed monster	799
The wheel of life	802
Artificial silk	807
Student’s khadi unions	807
Khadi service	808
Hand-weaving among Parsis	810
Khadi service rules	811
IV. SATYAGRAHA AND NON-VIOLENCE
Vykom Satyagraha	819
Case of Chirala Perala	822
Vykom Satyagraha	822
Vykom Satyagraha	828
Are Sikhs Hindus	829
Vykom Satyagraha	831
The Akhali struggle	832
A repudiation	835
Orthodox protest	837
Quiet work	837
It melts stones	838
A disturbing item	839
Negro’s sympathy	839
Vykom Satyagraha	840
Vykom Satyagraha	841
Patriotism run mad	842
Vykom Satyagraha	844
From Vykom	847
More about Vykom	848
Vykom Satyagraha	851
Entry into temples	853
Vykom	854
True Satyagraha	856
From Europe	858
When crime not immoral	865
Vykom Satyagraha	866
From far off America	867
What it is not	870
Mr. Pennington on the war path	873
What is violence?	874
Hindu-Muslim tension in Sindla	875
Letter from Lalaji	876
Punishment or reward	877
The wrong way	878
Am tired of Mahatma	879
Meaning of untruthful	880
Value of silent work	880
News to me	882
Well done Delhi	882
The law of love	883
My path	886
Implication of non-violence	888
A practical experiment in non-violence	894
A revolutionary’s defence	897
To another revolutionary	906
To R. S. S. R.	907
My friend the revolutionary	907
To revolutionary in making	915
Seeker after truth	917
At it again	919
On the verge of it	925
Violence in agriculture	930
The meaning of the Gita	933
Low moral tone	940
Sacrifice	942
What is natural	944
More animal than human	947
Conditions of pacific strikes	952
The greatest good of all	954
Is this humanity?	957