Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India (74 page)

Hindu nationalists,
7.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
; contemporary,
12.4
; Gandhi assassinated by,
12.5
,
12.6
,
12.7

Hindu Rashtra
(Hindu Nation; newspaper in Poona),
12.1

Hindus, Hinduism,
1.1
,
1.2
,
6.1
; ahimsa (nonviolence) value of,
6.2
,
7.1
; Ambedkar’s renunciation of,
10.1
,
10.2
; celibacy vow in (brahmacharya),
1.3
,
10.3
; Gandhi’s leadership role and,
7.2
,
7.3
; Gandhi’s quest for egalitarian reforms in,
7.4
,
8.1
,
9.1
; as great encompassing collective,
2.1
; Kumbh Mela festival of,
6.3
,
7.5
; origin of coinage,
2.2
; orthodox, anti-Gandhi demonstrations of,
9.2
,
9.3
; predestination doctrine in,
7.6
; reform movements and,
2.3
; remaining in Bangladesh and Pakistan,
11.1
,
12.1
; sexuality as viewed in,
10.4
; varnashrama dharma (rules of caste) in,
2.4
,
7.7
,
7.8
,
10.5
(
see also
caste discrimination)

Hindustani language,
5.1
,
6.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

Hindutva
(“Hinduness” doctrine),
12.1

Hitler, Adolf,
3.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
12.1

Hoare, Sir Samuel,
9.1
,
9.2

Home Ministry

Hughes, Heather

Hurbatsingh (indentured Indian)

Hydari Manzil (Calcutta)

Ilanga lase Natal
(Sun of Natal; Zulu newspaper),
3.1
,
3.2
,
5.1

Ilhaves.
See
Ezhavas

Illustrated London News
,
4.1

indentured Indians,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1
; Balasundaram case and,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6
; “coolie” as term for,
1.1
,
12.1
;
Critic
editorial and,
2.7
; demise of indenture system and,
5.3
; former, Natal’s head tax on,
3.3
,
4.5
; Gandhi dressed as,
1.2
,
4.6
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
; Gandhi’s condescending tone and,
1.3
; Gandhi’s identification with,
5.7
; Gandhi’s legal representation of,
2.8
; Gokhale’s campaign against,
4.7
; intercaste marriages among,
2.9
; labor contracts of,
1.4
,
4.8
,
5.8
; Natal Indian Congress and,
2.10
,
2.11
; overlap between untouchables and,
1.5
,
5.9
,
6.1
; as participants in satyagraha,
1.6
,
4.9
,
5.10
,
5.11
,
6.2
,
12.2
(
see also
satyagraha campaign of 1913); put on same plane as Africans,
3.4
; as stretcher bearers in corps led by Gandhi,
2.12
,
3.5
; turning point in Gandhi’s thinking on,
5.12
; urged to abandon addictions,
5.13
,
5.14

Independence Day (August 15, 1947),
1.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
12.5

independence movement,
6.1
,
8.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
; Anglicized leadership of,
6.2
; conferences with British and,
8.2
; dominion status as goal of,
8.3
,
8.4
; Gandhi restored to leadership role in (1928),
8.5
,
8.6
; Gandhi’s calls for Hindu-Muslim unity and,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.1
,
8.7
; Gandhi’s first encounters with emerging Muslim leadership of,
6.5
; Gandhi’s self-imposed withdrawal from (1924),
7.2
,
8.8
; Gandhi’s struggle for sexual self-mastery and,
10.1
; Nehru Report and,
8.9
; proclamation of symbolic independence day and (January 26, 1930),
8.10
,
8.11
; rallying of Muslims to national cause and,
1.1
,
6.6
,
6.7
,
8.12
(
see also
Khilafat, Khilafat movement); untouchability issue and,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
8.13
,
8.14
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
; widening chasm between Hindus and Muslims in (1940s),
11.2
(
see also
partition); World War II and,
10.2
,
10.3
,
11.3
.
See also
Indian National Congress; swaraj

Independent
(Indian nationalist newspaper),
7.1

Indian immigrants: spread of,
1.1
,
1.2
.
See also
anti-Indian laws and regulations, South African; indentured Indians

Indian National Congress,
1.1
,
2.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3
,
10.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
; after Gandhi’s death,
12.3
; corruption in,
12.4
,
12.5
; Gandhi as spokesman of, at Round Table Conference,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
; Gandhi given sole executive authority over,
6.5
,
6.6
; Gandhi’s first encounter with (1901),
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
6.7
,
12.6
; Gandhi’s ins and outs from leadership of (1940s),
11.1
; Gandhi’s memo on post-independence future of,
12.7
; Gandhi’s program adopted by,
6.8
; Gandhi’s resignation from (1934),
fm.1
,
8.4
,
9.4
,
9.5
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
11.2
,
12.8
; generational division in,
8.5
; Muslim leaders in,
6.9
(
see also
Ali, Muhammad; Jinnah, Mohammed Ali); Muslims’ break with,
8.6
; Nehru Report and,
8.7
; partition and,
11.3
,
11.4
,
11.5
,
12.9
,
12.10
,
12.11
,
12.12
; “Quit India!” movement and,
11.6
,
11.7
; spinning resolution and,
7.4
,
8.8
,
8.9
; support of British war effort and,
11.8
; untouchability issue and,
7.5
,
7.6
,
7.7
,
7.8
,
7.9
,
7.10
,
8.10
,
8.11
,
8.12
,
8.13
,
9.6
,
9.7
,
9.8
,
9.9
,
9.10
,
9.11
; Working Committee of,
10.4
,
11.9
,
11.10
,
11.11

Indian Opinion
(Gandhi’s weekly newspaper),
fm.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
1.4
,
1.5
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
,
4.8
,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
9.1
,
12.1
; moved to Phoenix Settlement,
4.9

Indian Relief Act (1914)

Indian Sociologist
(London),
3.1

indigo farmers of Champaran, Bihar,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
12.1
,
12.2

industrialization, critiques of ravages of,
fm.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
8.1
,
10.1

intercaste marriages,
2.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
10.1

intercommunal marriages,
6.1
,
11.1
,
12.1

Irving, Washington

Irwin, Lord (viceroy),
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
12.1

Islam,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
7.1
,
11.1
; forcible conversions of Hindus to,
11.2
,
11.3
; symbolic importance of Ottoman caliphate and,
6.4
(
see also
Ottoman caliphate); untouchables converting to,
2.1
,
2.2
,
7.2
,
11.4
.
See also
Muslims, Indian

Italy, Gandhi’s stay in (1931),
8.1
,
12.1

Izwi Labantu
(Zulu newspaper),
3.1

Jabavu, John Tengo

Jajoo, U. N.

Jamaat-i-Islami

Jama Masjid (Delhi),
7.1
,
7.2

Japan,
10.1
,
11.1
,
11.2

Jasidih, Bihar, Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour attacked in

Jewish Agency,
10.1
,
10.2

Jews: German, satyagraha recommended to,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
; in India,
7.1
; Zionist movement and,
4.1
,
10.3

jihad,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

Jinnah, Mohammed Ali, called Quaid-i-Azam,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
; blocked payment to Pakistan and,
12.4
; communal violence deplored by,
11.5
; “direct action” campaign of,
11.6
; Gandhi’s negotiations over partition with,
11.7
,
12.5
; Gandhi’s relationship with,
11.8
; Nehru Report and,
8.2
; sartorial transformation of,
11.9

Jinnah, Ruttie

Jinnah caps

Johannesburg,
6.1
; burning of residential permits in (1908),
1.1
,
3.1
; as Gandhi’s base of operations,
1.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
(
see also
Tolstoy Farm); Gandhi’s imprisonment in,
3.2
; Gandhi’s racial encounter in,
1.3
; monuments to Gandhi in,
1.4
,
3.3
; plague in,
3.4
; white workers’ general strikes in (1913),
5.1
,
5.2
; YMCA debate in (1908),
3.5
,
3.6

Joseph, George,
7.1
,
7.2

Joyag, Noakhali, Gandhi museum near

“kaffir”: Gandhi’s use of epithet,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
; origin and use of word,
3.4

Kallenbach, Hermann,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
5.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
; as architect,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
; background of,
4.8
; as bodybuilder,
4.9
; detained during World War I,
5.2
,
10.1
; Gandhi’s agreements with,
4.10
,
4.11
,
4.12
; Gandhi’s correspondence with,
4.13
,
4.14
,
4.15
,
4.16
,
5.3
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
9.1
,
10.2
; Gandhi’s reunion with,
10.3
,
10.4
; Jewish identity of,
4.17
; Johannesburg homes of Gandhi and,
4.18
; rivals for Gandhi’s attention and,
4.19
; satyagraha campaign of 1913 and,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7
,
5.8
; Tolstoy Farm and,
3.3
,
4.20
,
4.21
,
10.5
,
10.6
; Zionism and,
4.22
,
10.7

Kallenbach, Simon

Kanyakumari, Devi temple at

Karachi, Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour in

Karkare, Vishnu

Kashmir,
12.1
,
12.2

Kasturba Gandhi Hospital (Wardha)

Kepel, Gilles

Kerala: intricacies of caste as practiced in,
7.1
,
7.2
; religious diversity in,
7.3
.
See also
Travancore; Vaikom, Shiva temple at; Vaikom Satyagraha

khadi, or khaddar (hand-loomed cloth),
6.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
11.1
,
12.1

Kheda, Gujarat, campaign on behalf of farmers in,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
12.1

Khilafat (caliphate), Khilafat movement,
1.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
12.2
; bin Laden’s views on,
6.2
,
12.3
; erosion of Ottoman power and,
6.3
,
6.4
; Gandhi’s ascendance and,
1.2
,
6.5
,
6.6
; Gandhi’s loincloth and,
6.7
; Hindu-Muslim accommodation and,
6.8
,
6.9
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
9.1
; Jinnah’s skepticism about,
6.10
; noncooperation strategy and,
6.11
,
6.12
,
6.13
,
6.14
; as preeminent Indian cause among Muslims,
6.15
; rallying of Muslims to national cause and,
1.3
,
6.16
,
6.17
,
8.1
; waning of,
6.18
,
6.19
,
6.20
,
6.21