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Khilafat Committee

kibbutzim

Kildonan Castle
,
4.1

Kinfauns Castle
,
5.1

Kingdom of God Is Within You, The
(Tolstoy),
2.1
,
12.1

Kipling, Rudyard

Kochrab Ashram.
See
Sabarmati Ashram

Kochu, K. K.

Kohat, riots in (1924)

Kolhapur, maharajah of

Kolis

Kolkata.
See
Calcutta

Koran,
6.1
,
6.2

Kripalani, J. B.,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1

Kripalani, Sucheta

Kumarappa, J. C. (formerly Joseph Cornelius)

Kumbh Mela,
6.1
,
7.1

Kwa-Mashu

Labor Party (Great Britain),
8.1
,
8.2

Ladysmith, monument to Gandhi in

Lahore: communal violence in,
12.1
; Gandhi’s speech in (1947),
12.2

Laski, Harold

“Last Will and Testament, The

Lawrence, Vincent,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
8.1

Lazar, Hannah (Kallenbach niece)

legislative institutions: Communal Award and (British ruling on electorates for Indian communities),
9.1
; Gandhi’s scorn for,
4.1
,
5.1
; Muslim representation in,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
9.2
,
9.3
; Poona Pact and,
9.4
,
9.5
; Swarajists and,
7.1
; untouchable representation in,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
,
8.7
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
12.1

Life of Mahomet
(Irving),
6.1

Linlithgow, Lord (viceroy)

Lloyd George, David

Lohia, Rammanohar

loincloth: Gandhi’s wearing of,
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
; symbolic meanings of,
1.3
,
6.3
,
10.1

Lok Sevak Sangh (People’s Service League)

London: Gandhi’s last visit to (1931),
8.1
; Gandhi’s 1909 mission to,
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.1
; Gandhi’s three years in (1888–1891),
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
12.1
; Round Table Conference in (1931),
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
; suffragette demonstrations in,
1.3
,
5.1

London Missionary Society

London Vegetarian Society

Luthuli, Albert

Macaulay, Thomas B.

MacDonald, Ramsay,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
9.4

Madhavan, T. K.,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Madras (now called Chennai): food shortage in (1948),
12.1
; Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour in,
9.1

Madras Legislative Council

Mahad, Maharashtra, Ambedkar’s demonstrations in

Mahadevan, T. K.

Mahars,
8.1
,
8.2

Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Science (Wardha)

Mahomed, Dawad

Maitland, Edward

Malabar, Muslim rebellion in (1921)

Malabar Hill (Bombay) talks (1944),
11.1
,
11.2

Malayala Manorama
(Kerala newspaper),
7.1
,
7.2

Mandela, Nelson,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
5.1

Manusmriti
,
8.1

Mappilas, or Moplahs

marriages: forced, of Hindu women with Muslim men,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
; Indian, without legal standing in South Africa,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
; intercaste,
2.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
; intercommunal, of Hindus and Muslims,
6.1
,
11.3
,
12.2

Mauritius,
1.1
,
5.1

Mayawati

McCallum, Sir Henry,
3.1
,
4.1

Mehta, Ved

Menon, Krishna

Mesopotamia (now in Iraq)

microfinance schemes,
10.1
,
12.1

mine workers: indentured Indian, protest of (1913),
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1
,
12.1
(
see also
satyagraha campaign of 1913); white, strike of (1913),
5.2
,
5.3

Minorities Committee

“Minute on Indian Education” (Macaulay)

Modh Banias,
1.1
,
2.1
,
3.1

Morning Post
(London),
2.1

Mountbatten, Lord (viceroy),
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

Mount Edgecombe: Gandhi’s encounter with Dube at,
3.1
,
5.1
; turmoil at Campbell’s plantation at,
5.2
,
5.3

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Munshi Ram, Mahatma.
See
Shraddhanand, Swami

Muslim League,
6.1
,
6.2
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
11.6
,
11.7
,
11.8
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
; Gandhi’s walking tour of Noakhali and,
11.9
,
11.10
,
11.11
,
11.12
,
12.5
.
See also
Jinnah, Mohammed Ali, called Quaid-i-Azam

Muslims, Indian,
1.1
,
6.1
; as converts to noncooperation and satyagraha,
6.2
; Gandhi’s ascendance and,
1.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
; Gandhi’s relations with leaders of,
6.5
; “kaffir” epithet and,
3.1
; legislative representation of,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
9.1
,
9.2
; merchants in South Africa,
1.3
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
4.1
,
6.6
; in post-partition India,
12.1
; preservation of Khilafat (caliphate) as preeminent cause among,
6.7
(
see also
Khilafat, Khilafat movement).
See also
Hindu-Muslim relations; Islam

Mussolini, Benito,
8.1
,
8.2
,
12.1

Nagaraj, D. R.

Nagpur,
8.1
; Congress meeting at (1920),
6.1
,
7.1
; Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour in,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
; memorials to Ambedkar movement in,
8.2

Naidoo, Prema,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2

Naidoo, Thambi,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
12.1
; Gandhi followed to India by sons of,
5.1
,
6.1
; in satyagraha campaign of 1913,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4

Naidu, Sarojini,
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Naipaul, V. S.,
fm.1
,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1

Nairs,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3

Namasudras

Nambiatiri, Indanturuttil

Namboodiris, or Nambuthiris,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
9.1

Nambuthiri, Krishnan

Nandi, Moranjibala

Narayan Guru, Sri,
7.1
,
7.2
; Gandhi’s first meeting with,
7.3

Nasik, Maharashtra: Ambedkar’s satyagraha in,
8.1
,
8.2
; Gandhi’s purification ritual at,
2.1
,
8.3

Natal,
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1
; Boer War in,
2.1
; as center of Indian life in South Africa,
4.2
; elimination of Indian voting rights in,
4.3
; end of indenture system in,
5.1
; final satyagraha in,
4.4
; Gandhi’s
Critic
editorial about indentured servitude in,
2.2
; Gandhi’s prolonged abstention from politics in,
4.5
,
4.6
; Gandhi’s return to (1913),
3.1
,
4.7
; head tax on former indentured Indians in,
3.2
,
4.8
; mass mobilization of indentured Indians in (1913),
1.3
,
4.9
,
6.1
,
12.1
(
see also
satyagraha campaign of 1913); rural, leaders of consequence emerging from,
3.3
; Zulu uprising in (1906),
3.4
,
12.2
(
see also
Bhambatha Rebellion).
See also
Durban

Natal Advertiser
,
1.1
,
5.1

Natal Coal Owners Association

Natal Indian Association,
5.1
,
5.2

Natal Indian Congress,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
; Gandhi expelled from,
5.1
; satyagraha campaign of 1913 and,
5.2
,
5.3

Natal Mercury
,
1.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

Natal Militia

Natal Native Congress

Natal Witness
,
5.1
,
5.2

Natesan, G. A.

Nath, Lal

National Archives of India

Nationalists

national movement.
See
independence movement; Indian National Congress

Natives Land Act (1913),
3.1
,
3.2
,
5.1

Navajivan
(Gujarati newspaper),
12.1

Nayar, Pyarelal.
See
Pyarelal

Nayar, Sushila,
3.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1

Nazareth Church (Ekuphakameni),
3.1
,
3.2

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
2.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
12.5
,
12.6
,
12.7
; black South Africans and,
3.1
; communal violence and,
11.3
; Congress movement and,
8.3
,
8.4
,
8.5
,
8.6
; Gandhi’s fast unto death and,
9.3
; as Gandhi’s heir and successor,
11.4
; on Gandhi’s opposition to caste system,
7.2
,
7.3
; Gandhi visited at Srirampur by,
11.5
,
11.6
; partition and,
11.7
,
12.8
,
12.9
; untouchability issue and,
8.7
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
9.6
,
9.7

Nehru, Kamala

Nehru, Motilal,
7.1
,
8.1
,
8.2

Nehru Report

Newcastle, indentured Indian strikers in (113),
1.1
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3

New Delhi
.
See also
Delhi

Noakhali,
11.1
,
11.2
,
12.1
,
12.2
; assessment of Gandhi’s months in,
11.3
; communal violence in,
11.4
,
11.5
,
11.6
,
11.7
,
11.8
,
11.9
,
11.10
,
11.11
,
11.12
,
12.3
; Gandhi in, at moment of independence,
12.4
; Gandhi’s message to Muslims in,
11.13
; Gandhi’s planned return to,
12.5
,
12.6
,
12.7
,
12.8
,
12.9
,
12.10
,
12.11
; Gandhi’s stay at Srirampur village in,
11.14
,
11.15
(
see also
Srirampur); Gandhi’s walking tour of,
11.16
,
11.17
,
11.18
,
11.19
,
11.20
,
12.12
; prayer meetings in,
11.21
,
11.22
,
11.23
,
11.24

Nobel Peace Prize,
12.1
,
12.2

No Changers

noncooperation campaigns,
4.1
,
6.1
,
8.1
,
12.1
; ban on public meetings and,
6.2
; boycott of cloth from English mills and,
6.3
,
6.4
,
6.5
,
7.1
; Gandhi’s conception of,
4.2
,
6.6
; Jinnah’s “direct action” and,
11.1
; Muslim support for,
6.7
,
6.8
,
6.9
,
6.10
; “Quit India!” movement,
11.2
,
12.2
; suspensions of,
6.11
,
6.12
,
7.2
; violence resulting from,
1.1
,
6.13
.
See also
civil disobedience

nonviolence,
1.1
,
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
; black South Africans and,
3.4
,
10.2
; discipline of,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.1
; Gandhi’s disappointment with efficacy of,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
12.4
; Gandhi’s moral pronouncements on crises of late 1930s and,
10.3
; Gandhi’s Noakhali mission and,
11.6
,
11.7
,
11.8
; Gandhi’s recruitment of Indian troops at odds with,
6.5
,
6.6
; Hindu value of ahimsa and,
6.7
,
7.2
; support of British war effort and,
11.9
; Tolstoy’s influence and,
2.2
; violent outcomes of,
5.4
,
6.8
,
6.9
,
11.10
.
See also
civil disobedience; noncooperation campaigns; satyagraha

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