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Authors: Joseph Lelyveld

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Fiji,
1.1
,
5.1

“firings”,
6.1
,
6.2

First Vote

Fischer, Louis,
2.1
,
6.1
,
11.1
,
11.2

foot-touching

Fort (Johannesburg)

Freud, Sigmund

Gaiety Theater (Johannesburg)

Gandhi
(movie),
1.1

Gandhi, Abha (grandniece)

Gandhi, Devadas (fourth son),
4.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
12.1

Gandhi, Ela (granddaughter)

Gandhi, Harilal (eldest son),
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
12.1
; father’s disappointment in,
10.1
,
10.2

Gandhi, Indira

Gandhi, Jaisukhlal (nephew),
11.1
,
11.2

Gandhi, Karamchand, called Kaba (father),
1.1
,
12.1

Gandhi, Kastur, called Ba (née Makanji; wife),
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
; death of,
3.2
,
11.1
,
12.3
; husband’s celibacy vow and,
1.4
,
4.5
; in satyagraha of 1913,
5.3
,
5.4
; untouchability and,
2.2
,
6.2
,
6.3

Gandhi, Laxmidas (older brother),
2.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

Gandhi, Manilal (second son),
fm.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
12.1
; in love with Muslim woman,
6.2

Gandhi, Manu (grandniece),
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
12.1
; Mahatma’s assassination and,
11.4
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
; as test of Mahatma’s vow of celibacy,
11.5
,
11.6
,
11.7
; in walking tour of Noakhali,
11.8
,
11.9
,
11.10

Gandhi, Mohandas K.: Aiyar’s views on,
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
8.1
; Ali’s relationship with,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
12.1
(
see also
Ali, Muhammad); Ambedkar’s relationship with,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1
(
see also
Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji); ambition of,
1.2
,
1.3
; ancestors of,
1.4
; assassination of,
5.4
,
7.1
,
9.5
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
12.5
,
12.6
,
12.7
; attire of,
1.5
,
1.6
,
1.7
,
2.1
,
4.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
8.7
; black South Africans’ contact with,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
12.8
(
see also
black South Africans); caste background of,
1.8
,
2.2
,
10.2
; caste discrimination and (
see
caste discrimination; untouchables, untouchability); celibacy vow of,
1.9
,
1.10
,
3.6
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
6.7
,
6.8
,
10.3
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
12.9
; Christian missionaries and,
1.11
,
2.3
,
5.8
,
7.2
; chronology for,
12.10
; communal settlements established by (
see
ashrams; Phoenix Settlement; Sabarmati Ashram; Sevagram village and ashram; Tolstoy Farm); cremation of,
12.11
,
12.12
; deification of,
6.9
; demeanor of,
1.12
; dietary rigors of,
1.13
,
4.7
,
4.8
,
4.9
,
4.10
,
5.9
,
5.10
,
5.11
,
6.10
,
6.11
,
6.12
; essential foreignness of,
2.4
,
2.5
; fasting of (
see
fasts); as father,
4.11
; first political speeches of,
1.14
; fundamental nature of appeal of,
6.13
; funeral of,
12.13
,
12.14
; Gokhale as mentor of,
1.15
,
2.6
,
4.12
,
6.14
,
6.15
(
see also
Gokhale, Gopal Krishna); health experiments of,
4.13
,
5.12
,
12.15
; Hindu-Muslim unity sought by,
4.14
,
6.16
,
6.17
,
6.18
,
6.19
,
6.20
,
7.3
,
8.8
,
8.9
(
see also
Hindu-Muslim relations); imprisonment of,
3.7
,
3.8
,
3.9
,
4.15
,
5.13
,
5.14
,
7.4
,
8.10
,
8.11
,
8.12
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
9.8
,
11.6
,
12.16
,
12.17
,
12.18
,
12.19
; independence movement and,
6.21
,
7.5
,
8.13
,
11.7
(
see also
independence movement; Indian National Congress; swaraj); Jinnah’s relationship with,
11.8
(
see also
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali); Kallenbach’s relationship with,
4.16
,
10.4
(
see also
Kallenbach, Hermann); Khilafat movement supported by,
1.16
,
6.22
(
see also
Khilafat, Khilafat movement); languages spoken by,
1.17
,
1.18
,
1.19
,
4.17
,
5.15
,
6.23
,
6.24
,
6.25
,
6.26
,
12.20
; mahatma title conferred on,
1.20
,
6.27
,
7.6
; marriage of,
1.21
,
1.22
,
4.18
,
4.19
,
4.20
(
see also
Gandhi, Kastur); massages received by,
4.21
,
9.9
,
11.9
,
11.10
,
11.11
,
11.12
; monuments to,
1.23
,
3.10
; Nehru as heir and successor of,
11.13
(
see also
Nehru, Jawaharlal); nonviolent tactics of,
1.24
,
4.22
,
6.28
,
7.7
(
see also
civil disobedience; noncooperation campaigns; nonviolence; satyagraha); one hundredth anniversary of birth of,
fm.1
; photographs of,
2.7
,
3.11
,
3.12
,
3.13
,
4.23
,
5.16
,
5.17
,
5.18
,
5.19
,
5.20
,
6.29
,
6.30
,
7.8
,
8.14
,
8.15
,
9.10
,
10.5
,
11.14
,
11.15
,
11.16
,
11.17
,
12.21
; pro-British sentiments of,
3.14
,
3.15
,
3.16
,
4.24
,
6.31
,
6.32
,
10.6
; racial thinking of,
3.17
(
see also
black South Africans); return to India of (1915),
1.25
,
2.8
,
4.25
,
4.26
,
5.21
,
5.22
,
5.23
,
5.24
,
6.33
; sanitation and hygiene as concerns of,
2.9
,
2.10
,
2.11
,
2.12
,
2.13
,
4.27
,
6.34
,
6.35
,
6.36
,
9.11
,
10.7
,
10.8
,
11.18
; self-rule notion of (
see
swaraj); social equality notion of,
1.26
(
see also
caste discrimination; indentured Indians; untouchables, untouchability); transformation or self-invention of,
1.27
,
1.28
,
1.29
,
1.30
,
4.28
,
4.29
,
4.30
,
5.25
; wartime service of,
1.31
,
2.14
,
3.18
,
3.19
,
3.20
,
3.21
,
6.37
,
10.9
,
12.22

Gandhi, Prabhudas (grandnephew),
3.1
,
4.1

Gandhi, Putlibai (mother),
2.1
,
2.2

Gandhi, Rajmohan (grandson),
3.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
8.1

Gandhi, Raliatbehn (sister)

Gandhi, Ramdas (third son),
4.1
,
12.1

Gandhi, Tushar (great-grandson)

“Gandhian,” use of term

Gandhi Ashram Trust,
11.1
,
11.2

Gandhi caps

“Gandhiji’s Talisman”,
12.1
,
12.2

Gandhi Raj

Gandhi Seva Sangh,
10.1
,
10.2

Gandhi Smriti (Delhi)

Gandhi Square (Johannesburg)

Gandhi Trust

George V, king of England

Germany, Nazi,
3.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
11.1

Gladstone, Herbert, Lord

Glass, Philip

Godavari River

Godse, Nathuram,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4

Gokhale, Gopal Krishna,
2.1
,
6.1
,
11.1
; death of,
6.2
,
6.3
; as Gandhi’s mentor,
1.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
6.4
,
6.5
; Gandhi’s return to India and,
2.3
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
5.1
,
6.6
; Gandhi’s third-class rail travel and,
2.4
; satyagraha campaign of 1913 and,
1.2
,
5.2
; South African visit of,
1.3
,
3.1
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
5.3
,
5.4
; three-pound head tax and,
4.7
,
4.8
,
5.5

gold mines in South Africa,
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1

Gool, Fatima

Goseva Sangh

Grameen Bank

Grand National Hotel (Johannesburg)

Great Calcutta Killing (1946),
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
12.1
,
12.2

Gujarat: campaign on behalf of farmers in Kheda district in,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
12.1
; communal violence of 2002 in,
12.2
; Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour in,
9.1
; Hindu extremism in,
12.3
.
See also
Rajkot

Gumede, Josiah

Gunasiri, Vimalkitti

Gupta, Barun Das

Gurukul,
7.1
,
7.2

Guruvayur temple,
9.1
,
9.2

Habib, Hadji,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3

Hamidia Mosque (Fordsburg, Johannesburg),
1.1
,
3.1

Hardinge, Lord

Hardwar, Kumbh Mela festival at,
6.1
,
7.1

Harijan
(Gandhi’s weekly newspaper),
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5

“Harijans” (children of God), as term for untouchables,
1.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
12.1

Harijan Sevak Sangh, or Harijan Service Society (formerly Anti-untouchability League),
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4
,
10.1
,
12.1

head taxes: on former indentured Indians,
3.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7
,
5.8
,
5.9
,
5.10
,
5.11
,
5.12
,
8.1
,
8.2
(
see also
satyagraha campaign of 1913); on Zulus (1906),
3.2
,
3.3

hijrat (voluntary migration to truly Muslim country)

Hind Swaraj
(Indian Self-Rule; Gandhi),
4.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
8.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

Hindu Mahasabha,
7.1
,
12.1

Hindu-Muslim relations,
7.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
; British exploitation of differences and,
1.1
; communal violence and,
1.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.2
,
8.2
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
11.6
,
11.7
,
11.8
,
11.9
,
11.10
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
12.5
,
12.6
,
12.7
,
12.8
; dining and,
2.1
; Gandhi’s assassination and,
11.11
; Gandhi’s calls for unity and,
4.1
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
6.6
,
6.7
,
7.3
,
8.3
,
8.4
; Gandhi’s disappointment with lack of resolution in,
10.1
,
10.2
; Gandhi’s fasts and,
6.8
,
7.4
,
11.12
,
11.13
,
12.9
,
12.10
,
12.11
; Gandhi’s Noakhali mission and,
11.14
,
11.15
,
11.16
,
11.17
; intercommunal marriages and,
6.9
,
11.18
,
12.12
; in jails,
3.1
; Khilafat issue and,
6.10
,
6.11
,
7.5
,
7.6
,
9.2
(
see also
Khilafat, Khilafat movement); naming of Madhavan’s son and,
7.7
; Nehru Report and,
8.5
; scenarios for, absent Gandhi,
7.8
; Shraddhanand and,
7.9
; in South Africa,
1.3
,
4.2
,
12.13
; untouchability issue and,
2.2
,
7.10
,
7.11
,
10.3
,
11.19
; wearing of loincloth and,
6.12
; Zionism issue and,
10.4

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