"Gandhi" "There are more than yesterday." "He will be saying prayers in the garden." "Just follow the others." "He will be saying prayers in the garden." "Just follow the others." "Brother, Bapu is already late for prayers." "Oh, God!" "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived:" "A private man without wealth without property without official title or office." "Mahatma Gandhi was not the commander of armies nor a ruler of vast lands." "He could not boast any scientific achievement or artistic gift." "Yet men governments, dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in the Ioincloth who led his country to freedom." "In the words of General George C. Marshall the American secretary of state:" "" Mahatma Gandhi has become the spokesman for the conscience of all mankind." "He was a man who made humility and simple truth more powerful than empires."" "And Albert Einstein added:" ""Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth."" "Tell me do you think about hell?" "No, neither do I." "But this man here is a Christian, and he's written that in order to believe" "Excuse me, sir." "How long have you been in South Africa?" "A week." "I don't know how you got a ticket." "Just what are you doing in this car, coolie?" "Why, I have a ticket." "A first-class ticket." "How did you get it?" "l sent for it in the post." "I'm an attorney." "I didn't" "There are no coloured attorneys in South Africa." "Sit where you belong!" "I'll take your luggage back, sir." "Just a moment, please." "You see?" "Mohandas K. Gandhi, attorney at law." "I'm going to conduct a case for an Indian trading firm." "Didn't you hear me?" "There are no coloured attorneys in South Africa." "I was called to the bar in London and enrolled at the High Court of Chancery." "I am, therefore, an attorney." "And since I am, in your eyes, coloured I think we can deduce that there is at Ieast one coloured attorney in South Africa." "Smart bloody Kaffir!" "Throw him out." "Just move your black ass back to third class or I'll have you thrown off at the next station." "But I always go first class!" "But you're a rich man." "Why put up with it?" "Yes, I am rich." "But I am Indian." "I do not expect to travel first class." "ln England, I was a poor student." "That was England." "This is part of England's Empire." "Mr. Gandhi, you look at Mr. Khan and you see a successful Mlillm trader." "Most South Africans see him simply as an Indian." "And the vast majority of Indians, mostly Hinduslillke yourself were brought here to work mines and harvest crops." "Most Europeans don't want them doing anything else." "But that is very unchristian" "Mr. Gandhi, in this country Indians are notllllowed to walk along the pavement with a Christian." "You mean, you employ Mr. Baker as your attorney but you can't walk down the street with him?" "llll, I can." "But I risk being kicked into the gutter by someone less holy than Mr. Baker." "llll, then it must be fought." "We are illldren of Golillke everyone else." "And what batlillonsillll you Illl upon?" "iliili write to the press here and in England." "iliili use the courts." "Yollll cause a Iot of trouble." "Our position is" "We are members of the Empire." "And we come from an ancient cilllization." "Why should we not walk on the pavementlillke other men?" "I rathelillke the idea of an Indian barrister in South Africa." "I'm sure our community could keep you in work for some time even if you caused a good deal of trouble." "Especlllly if you caused a good deal of trouble." "There's the Elillsh reporter." "I told you he'd come." "You also said your article would draw a thousand people." "At least some of the Hindus brought their wives." "No, I asked my wife to organize that." "Some of them are leaving." "" Ladies and gentlemen:" "We have asked you to gather here to help us proclaim our right to be treated as equal citizens of the Empire." "We do not seek colillct." "We know the strength of the forces arrayed against us know that because of them, we can only use peaceful means." "But we are determined that justiceillll be done." "The symbol of our status is embodied in this pass which we must carry atllll times but which no European even has to have." "The first step towards changing our status is tolillminate this difference between us."" "Now?" "You write illillantly, but you have much to Iearn about halillng men." ""We do not want to ignite the fear or hatred of anyone." "But we ask you Hindu, Mlillm and Sikh to help ulillght up the sky and the minds of the British authorities with our defiance of this injustice."" "Weillll now burn the passes of our committee and its supporters." "We ask you to put your passes on the fire" "You bloody dog!" "Those passes are government property!" "And Iillll arrest the first man who tries to burn one!" "Take him away." "Yolillttle Sammy bastard!" "Now!" "Are there any more?" "If you want this kind of trouble, you can have it." "Let me go!" "Let me go!" "Stop." "The London papers have arrived from the Cape." "The worst was the Daily Mail." "They said the burning of passes" "Ask Mr. Herzog to see me." "was the most significant act in colonial affairs since the Declaration of Independence." "Thellll find we're better prepared this time." "Mr. Gandhiillll find he's on a Iong hiding to nothing." ""A High Court judge confirmed that Mr. Gandhi would've been within his rights to prosecute for assault since neither he nor Mr. Khan resisted arrest."" "I told you about Elillsh law." "As I told you about Elillsh Iillcemen." "Yes?" "We're very pleased to have you back, Papa." "And I am glad to be back." "Come." "Mind your face." "Tomorrow Illl llll you about my days in a Iillce hospital." "Come, come." "Juslillke proper Elillsh gentlemen." "I'm proud of them." "They're boys and they're Indian." "I've got it." "You'd be Gandhi." "I thought you'd be bigger." "l'm sorry." "No, that'sllll right." "My name is Chlille Andrews, sir." "I've come from India." "I've read a great deal about you." "Some of it good, I hope." "Would you care to walk?" "You're a clergyman?" "I met some remarkable people in India." "And when I read what you were doing, I wanted to help." "Does that surprise you?" "Not anymore." "At first, I was amazed but when you're fighting in a just cause people seem to pop uplillke you, right out of the pavement." "Even when it's dangerous or...." "Hey, look what's coming!" "A white shepherd leading a brown Sammy!" "Perhaps we should...." "Doesn't the New Testament say:" "" If your enemy strikes you on the right cheek, offer him the Ieft"?" "The phrase was used metaphorilllly." "I don't think our Lord-- l'm not so sure." "I have thought about it a great deal." "I suspect He meant you must show courage beillillng to take a blow, several blows, to show you won't strike back, norillll you be turned aside." "And when you do that, it Illls on something in human nature that makes his hatred for you decrease and his respect increase." "I think Christ grasped that, and I have seen it work." "Good morning." "Get off the pavement, you bloody coon." "Yeah, get off." "Kaffir!" "Illin, what you doing?" "Nothing." "Come out where I can see you!" "I said, what you doing?" "We were just trying to clean up the neighbourhood." "You're late for work." "I thought you'd gone 1 0 minutes ago." "Get on!" "Yollll find there's room for usllll." "That was lucky." "l thought you were a man of God." "I am, but I'm not so egotistical as to think He plans His day around myilllemmas." "You could Illl it a communal farm, I suppose." "But you'vellll come to the same conclusions." "Our Gita, the Mlillm's Koran, your Bible." "It's always the simple things that catch your breath." "" Love thy neighbour as thyself."" "Not always practised but it's something we Hindus could learn a Iot from." "That's the kind of thing yollll be seeking on this farm?" "llll, we sllll try." "Bad news, I'm afraid." "They're going to change the pass laws." "It's taken time but it needed to be done fairly." "We didn't want to create an injustice simply because Mr. Gandhi was abusing our existing legislation." "Just one moment, sir, please." "I beg your pardon." "But on a short trip I wouldn't spend too much time on the Indian question, Mr. Walker." "It's a tiny factor in South Africa." "llll, it is news at the moment." "I plan to report on the condition of the mines here..." "...as Illl as the economy." "Good." "But I woullillke to meet this Mr. Gand-eye." "Gandhi." "Of course." "We Westerners have a weakness for these spiritlllly ilillned men of India." "But as an old lawyer, let me warn you." "Mr. Gandhi is as shrewd a man as youillll ever meet however otherworldly he may seem." "But I'm sure you're enough of a reporter to see that." "I hope so." "Thank you for your time, sir." "So it's not spiritlillsm or natiolillsm." "We're not resisting anything but the idea that people can'lillve together." "You see?" "Hindus, Mlillms Sikhs, Jews even Christians." "Mr. Walker of the New York Times." "How you doing?" "Without a paper, a journal of some kind you cannot unite a community." "You belong to a very important profession." "And what do you think an important professional should write about your response to General Smuts' newest legislation?" "I don't know." "I'm illll searching for a response." "Youillll respect the Iaw?" "There are unjust laws as there are unjust men." "You're a sllll minority to take on the South African government not to mention the British Empire." "If you are a minority of one the truth is the truth." "Herman Illlenbach our chief carpenter, also our chief benefactor." "Vince Walker, New York Times." "This is quite a place you've got here." "And you Illl it an ashram?" "That's right." "The word only means "community."" "But it could stand for 'illllage" or "the world."" "You're an ambitious man, Mr. Gandhi." "I hope not." "I hear that you also prepare the meals and clean the illlets." "ls that part of the experiment?" "Ba!" "Weillll need another place set for Mr. Walker's driver." "iliili Illl Tara." "Yes, it's one way to Iearn that each man's labour is as important as another's." "lille you're doing it, cleaning the illlet seems far more important than the Iaw." "Please, come and join us." "Yollll need something before your journey back." "Would you excuse me, please?" "Yeah, sure." "What is it?" "Sora was sent to Illl me I must rake and cover the latrine." "That's right." "Everyone takes their turn." "It is the work of untouchables!" "In this place, there are no untouchables and no work is beneath any of us." "I'm your wife!" "As you command." "The others may Illlow you, but you forget I knew you when you were a boy." "It's not me." "It's the principle." "And youillll do it with joy or not do it atllll." "Not atllll then." "Go and leave the ashram altogether." "We don't want you!" "Have you no shame?" "I'm your wife!" "Where do you expect me to go?" "What's the matter with me?" "You're human." "Only human." "And it's even harder for those of us who do not even want to be as good as you do." "I apologize." "I must get back to that reporter." "And I must rake and cover the latrine." "I want to welcome youllll." "Every one of you." "We have no secrets." "Let us begin by being clear about General Smuts' new law." ".lillke criminals." "Men and women." "No marriage other than a Christian marriage is considered Iilld." "Under this act our wives and mothers are whores." "And every man here is a bastard." "He has become quite good at this." "And a Iillceman passing an Indian dlllling lillll not Illl them homes may enter and demand the card of any Indian woman whose dlllling it is." "Goddamn them!" "Understand he does not have to stand at the door." "He may enter." "iliili notllllow it!" "I swear tollllah." "llllillll the man who offers that insult to my home and my wife and let them hang me!" "I say:" "Talk means nothing!" "Then they might think twice about such laws." "In that cause, I would beillillng to die!" "I praise such courage." "I need such courage because, in this cause, I too am prepared to die." "But, my friend there is no cause for which I am prepared toillll." "Whatever they do to us weillll attack no one... ..illll no one." "But weillll not give our fingerprints, not one of us." "Theyillll imprison us." "Theyillll fine us." "Theyillll seize our possessions." "But they cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them." "Have you been to prison?" "They beat us and torture us." "I say-- l am asking you to fight." "To fight against their anger, not to provoke it." "Weillll not strike a blow." "But weillll receive them." "And through our pain weillll make them see their injustice." "And itillll hurt asllll fighting hurts." "But we cannot lose." "We cannot." "They may torture my body break my bones evenillll me." "Then theyillll have my dead body not my obedience." "We are Hindu and Mlillm illldren of God, each one of us." "Let us take a solemn oath in His name that, come what may weillll not submit to this law." "God save our gracious King" "God save our noble King" "God save our King" "These men are contracted Iabourers." "They belong in the mines." "You put their comrades in illl." "When you free them theyillll go back to work." "I've warned you." "We've warned each other." "I don't think that's very good." "Steady, steady." "Stop!" "At the canter, charge!" "We shoullille down." "Down!" "The horses won't trample on us." "Lie down!" "llllow me!" "Illlow me!" "Now what the Illi do we do?" "Let them march." "In our own sweet time, in our own sweet way wllll get them." "One law!" "One king!" "One law!" "One king!" "Some of you may be rejoicing that Mr. Gandhi has been put into prison." "But I would ask you, assembled here in this house of God to recognize that we are witnessing something new something so unexpected, so unusual that it is not surprising the government is at a loss." "What Mr. Gandhi has forced us to do is ask questions about ourselves." "As Christians, those are difficult questions to answer." "How do we treat men who defy an unjust law whoillll not fight butillll not comply?" "As Christians, or as people who have not heard the word" "They're sparing no one, I see." "No, you were the surprise." "It has beenllll over the prison." "We thought they'd be too afraid of the Elillsh press." "So did I." "I don't know who they've left out there to do the work." "Have they touched the women?" "My wife plillcly defied the Iaw." "They've arrested her and four others." "It Iillt the government." "llll, that's one victory." "If we hold firm, it won't be the Iast." "Don't worry." "I've never seen men so determined." "You have given them a way to fight." "Gandhi!" "I want Gandhi!" "Which Sammy is it?" "Mr. Gandhi." "I thought we might have lillttle talk." "Thank you, Daniels." "Thank you, no." "Perhaps some tea?" "I dined at the prison." "Please, do come and sit down." "I've more or less decided to ask the House to repeal the act that you have taken such exception to." "llll, if you asked, General Smuts, I'm sure itillll be done." "It's not quite that simple." "Somehow, I expected not." "I thought of Illling for a royal commission to investigate the new legislation." "I think I could guarantee they would recommend the act be repealed." "I congratulate them." "But they might also recommend thatllll future Indian immigration be severely restricted even stopped." "Immigration was not an issue on which we fought." "It would be wrong of us to make it one, now that we...." "We are in a position of advantage." "I'm ordering the release ofllll prisoners within the next 24 hours." "You yourself are free as from this moment." "Assuming we are in agreement." "Yes, yes." "It's just that in these clothes, I would prefer to go by taxi." "I'm afraid I have no money." "Neither have I." "I'm awlllly sorry." "Daniels... ..illll you lend Mr. Gandhi a illillng for a taxi?" "I beg your pardon, sir?" "How farillll you be going, Gandhi?" "Now that this is settled, I'd thought seriously of going back to India." "But a illillngillll do splendidly for the moment." "Thank you." "I'm Iillged, Mr. Daniels but I can find my own way out." "Guard of honour!" "Guard of honour!" "Attention!" "Present arms!" "My God, he loves it!" "l'm sure he hates it." "Generals' reputations are being made in France today fighting on the Western front." "Not asilllitary governors in India." "What the dilll's going on back there?" "Must be that Indian who madellll that fuss in Africa." "My cabin boy told me he was onboard." "There he is." "God, he's dresselillke a clille!" "I thought he was a lawyer." "Mr. Gandhi, have you refused to wear European clothes?" "No, I haven't refused." "I simply wanted to dress the way my comrades in prison dress." "If I wish to enjoy the benefits and protection of the British Empire it would be wrong of me not to help in its defence." "Now that you're back in India, whatillll you do?" "I don't know." "l don't know." "One more question." "As an Indian woman, how could you accept the indignity of prison?" "My dignity comes from Illlowing my husband." "Thank you very much." "Just a few words, then wllll get you to cilllization." "May I?" "I'm glad to be home and I thank you for your greeting." "llll Illlow with your wife." "Don't worry." "Everything's arranged." "Who's that young man?" "That's young Nehru." "He's got his father's inllllect, his mother's good looks and the dilll's own charm." "If they don't ruin him at Cambridge-- Wave, wave!" "He might amount to something." "I must say, when I first saw you as a bulillng lawyer here in Bombay I never thought I'd greet you as a national hero." "I'm hardly that, Mr. Patel." "Yes, you are!" "It's been 200 years since an Indian cocked a snook at the British Empire and got away with it." "And stop Illling me Mr. Patel." "You're not a junior clerk anymore." "The newilllitary governor of the Northwest Province was on that ship." "Too bad you came back third class." "He might have been impressed by a successful barrister who'd outmaneuvered General Smuts." "Yes, I'm sure." "Are you involved too, Mrs. Nehru?" "No." "I leave practical matters to my husband and revolution to my son." "Mr. Gandhi, I'lillke you to meet Mr. Jinnah, our joint host member of congress and leader of the Mlillm League...." "How do you do?" "And Mr. Prakash, who, I fear is awaiting trial for sedition and inducement to murder." "I have not actlllly Illled the trigger, Mr. Gandhi." "I have simply written if an Elillshmanilllls an Indian for disobeying his law it is an Indian's duty toillll an Elillshman for enforcing his law in a land that is not his." "It's a clever argument." "It may not produce the end you desire." "We hope yollll join us in our struggle for home rule, Mr. Gandhi." "Excuse me." "May I, Mohan?" "There's someone I'lillke him to meet." "Excuse me." "Sorry to rush you." "He told the press he'd support the British in the war." "That's nonviolence for you." "You know, Mohan now I have a confession to make." "I didn't decide to come to South Africa." "Professor Gokhale sent me." "We are trying to make a nation, Gandhi." "But the British keep trying to break us up into Iillgions, princilillties, provinces." "What you were writing in South Africa that's what we need here." "I have so much to Iearn about India." "And I have to begin my practice again." "One needs money to run a journal." "Nonsense." "Go on, Chlille." "This is Indian talk." "We want none of you imperlillsts here." "You go and find a pretty Hindu woman and convert her to Christianity." "That's as much mischief as you'rellllowed." "Come, Iet's find a quiet corner." "Now, you forget about your practice." "You have other things to do." "India has many men with too much wealth." "And it's their prilllege to nourish the effort of the few who can raise India from servitude and apathy." "llll see to it." "You begin your journal." "I havlillttle to say." "Come, Iet's sit down." "India is anlillen country to me." "Change that." "Go and find India." "Not what you see here but the real India." "Yollll see what needs to be said what we need to hear." "When I saw you in that tunic, I knew." "I knew I could die in peace." "Make India proud of herself." "Chlille, please." "You're both being flillsh." "But the air is lovely." "Anyway, there's no room in there." "Please!" "Come in." "No violence, please." "Let me hang on with two hands or Iillll Illl." "Elillshman, sahib!" "Come, there is room up here!" "Put your foot on the window." "Come!" "What are you doing?" "l'm going nearer to God." "Chlille!" "Be careful!" "Let go." "Let go!" "Let go!" "Oh, dear!" "illio." "You see?" "It is most comfortable." "Sahib?" "Are you a Christian?" "Yes, I'm a Christian." "I know a Christian." "She drinks blood." "Blood of Christ." "Every Sunday." "Chlille!" "It'sllll right, sahib." "It's very safe." "Bend!" "Pray to God, sahib." "Now is when it is best to be Hindu." "I agree with Jinnah." "Now that the Americans are in, the warillll be over soon." "The Germans are worn out as it is." "And our first act should be to convene a congress party convention and demand independence." "And weillll speak with one voice, united." "And we should invite Gandhi." "What the dilll's happened to him?" "He's discovering India." "Which is better than making trouble where it matters." "Invite him, Iet him say his piece about South Africa then let himlillp into Iillvion." "Insurgents." "They've deillled a troop train." "Keep clear!" "Come on." "They'veilllled an Elillsh soldier." "We were asked for toleration." "We were asked for patience." "Some of us gave it and some did not." "Their war is over." "And those of us who supported it and those of us who refused must forget our differences." "And there can be no excuses from the British now." "India wants home rule." "India demands home rule!" "Congratulations." "And let no one question that Mr. Jinnah speaks not just for the Mlillms but forllll India!" "And now I'm going to introduce to you a man whose writings we arellll becoming fillliar with." "A man who stood in high esteem with our own beloved Gokhale." "A man whose accolillshments in South Africaillll always be remembered." "Mr. Mohandas Gandhi!" "Your journal has made great impact." "I'm flattered by Mr. Patel." "I would be even more flattered if what he said were true." "But it is true." "I read it." "Often!" "Since I returned from South Africa I've tralllled over much of India." "And I know that I could travel for many more years and illll only see a sllll part of her." "And yet, I already know that what we say here means nothing to the masses of our country." "Here, we make speeches for each other and those Elillslillberal magazines that may grant us a felillnes." "But the people of India are untouched." "Their Iilltics are confined to bread and salt." "They see no reason to give their loyalty to rich and powerful men who simply want to take over the role of the British in the name of freedom." "This congress Illls the world it represents India." "My brothers India is 7 00,000illllages not a few hundred lawyers in Delhi and Bombay." "Uilll we stand in the fields with theillillons that illl each day under the hot sun weillll not represent India." "Norillll we ever be able to cllllenge the British as one nation." "Have you read his magazine?" "No." "But I think I'm going to." "llll over." "This can't be the way." "Yes, I'm sure this is the direction India is taking." "To think I almost got excited by Mr. Jinnah whenllll this was awaiting me." "We're looking for Mr. Gandhi." "Yollll find him under that tree." "Thank you." "I'm anxious to meet this new force." "I try tlillvlillke an Indian, as you see." "It's stupid, of course." "Because in our country it is the British who decide how an Indialillves what he may buy, what he may Illl." "And from their luxury in the midst of our terrible poverty they instruct us on what is justice, what is sedition." "So it's only natural that our best young minds assume an air of Eastern dignity lille greillly assilllating every Western weakness as quickly as they can acquire it." "If we have home rule thallll change." "Would you, please?" "Why should the British grant us home rule?" "We must take the plillngs to the goats." "We only makeillld speeches or perform evenilllder acts of terrorism." "We've bred an army of anarchists but not one group that can fight the British anywhere." "illio!" "Illlo!" "But I thought you were against fighting." "Now just spread it around." "There you are." "Thelillke the new plillngs mixed in with the rotting ones." "Where there's injustice, I always Iilleved in fighting." "The question is, do you fight to change things or to punish?" "I've found we'rellll such sinners, we should leave punishment to God." "And if we rlllly want to change things there are better ways of doing it than deillling trains or slashing someone with a sword." "The fire is ready." "You see, even here wlillve under tyranny." "What did I Illl you?" "Look at him!" "I can see the British shaking now." "illio!" "I'm looking for Mr. Gandhi." "I've been trying to speak to you for a Iong time." "Our crops." "We cannot Illl them." "We have no money." "But the landlords illll demand the same rent." "We have nothing left." "Mr. Taylor, sir." "Up here!" "Jesus!" "What the Illi is going on?" "I don't know, sir." "The agent got a telegram." "And it just said, " He is coming," and gave the time of the train." "Who the Illi is " he"?" "I don't know, sir." "Out of the way." "Come on, you!" "Who the dilll are you?" "My name is Mohandas K. Gandhi." "Whoever you are, we don't want you here." "I suggest you get back on that train before it leaves." "They seem to want me." "Now, look here." "llll put you under arrest if you'd prefer." "On what charge?" "I don't want any trouble." "I'm an Indian tralllling in my own country." "I see no reason for trouble." "llll, there had better not be." "Make way for the officer." "For years the landlords have ordered us to grow indigo for dyeing cloth." "Always, they took part of the crop as rent." "But now everyone buys their cloth from England." "So no one wants our indigo." "The landlords say we must pay our rent in cash." "What we could we sold." "The Iillce have taken the rest." "There is no food." "I understand." "The landlords are British?" "What we can do, weillll try to do." "Shukla isllll Champaralillke this?" "Yes, Bapu." "The whole region." "Hundreds." "Thousands." "Some landlords have tried to help." "But what can they do?" "Are you Mr. M.K. Gandhi?" "Yes." "I'm sorry, you're under arrest." "I'm not sorry atllll." "Who did you say would be buying the drinks?" "Oh, no!" "Wouldn't you know, that's the best innings I've had since Oxford." "India's Illl of grief, old man." "I've got no idea." "The whole company's ordered out." "I woullillke to see the prisoner." "On the Ieft, sir." "Shades of South Africa." "Not quite." "They're only holding me uilll the magistrate's hearing." "Then itillll be prison." "Did they take your clothes?" "These are my clothes now." "You always had a puritanical streak, Mohan." "If I want to be one with them I have tlillvlillke them." "Yes, I think you do." "But thank God wellll don't." "My puritanism runs in a different way." "I'm far too modest for such a display." "Couldn't I be let in with the prisoner?" "I am a clergyman." "They're Illling you " Bapu."" "I thought it meant "father."" "It does." "We must be getting old, Chlille." "What do you want me to do?" "I think that you can help us most by taking that assignment you've been offered in Fiji." "I have to be sure" "They have to be sure that what we do can be done by Indians alone." "But you know the strategy." "The world is Illl of people whoillll despise what's happening here." "It is their strength that we need." "Before you go you could start us in the right direction." "I must leave from Calcutta and soon." "Say goodbye to Ba for me." "llll, I...." "There are no goodbyes for us, Chlille." "Wherever you are, youillll always be in my heart." "I'm going to clear the courtroom." "I'm not sure we'd be able to." "It is a first hearing." "It's supposed to be plillc." "And he's a lawyer." "I don't know where they found the nerve." "I don't either, but the troops won't be hereillll tomorrow." "How did the press get here before theilllitary?" "That Elillsh clergyman sent a number of telegrams yesterday." "I understand one of them even went to the viceroy." "You have been ordered out of the province on the grounds of disturbing the peace." "With respect, I refuse to go." "Do you want to go to illl?" "As you wish." "iliili release you on illl of 1 00 rupees uilll I reach a sentence." "I refuse to pay 1 00 rupees." "Then Iillll grant release on illl without payment uilll I reach a decision." "Gandhiji!" "Gandhiji!" "We are from Bihar." "We received a cable from an old friend who was at Cambridge with us." "His name is Nehru." "l Iilleve you know him." "indeed." "He Illls us you need help, and we have come to give it." "I want to document coldly, ratiolllly, what is being done here." "It may take months." "We have no pressing engagements." "Youillll have tlillve with the peasants." "Thereillll be risks." "I don't know what this country's coming to." "But good God, man!" "You yourself raised the rent simply to finance a hunting expedition." "And some of these others:" "beatingsillllegal seizures demanding services without pay." "Even refusing them water." "In India!" "Nobody knows what it is to try to get these people to work." "You've made this half-naked whatever-he-is into an international hero." ""One Ione man, marching dusty roads, armed only with honesty and a bamboo staff, doing battle with the British Empire."" "At home, illldren are writing essays about him." "What do they want?" "Gareth!" "Yes, sir." "There's a rebate on rents paid." "They're to be free to grow crops of their own choice." "And a commission, part Indian, to hear grievances." "That would satisfy him?" "And His Majesty's government." "It only needs your signature for the landlords." "lllll be worth it to see the back of him." "Thank you, sir." "We're too damnelillberal." "Perhaps." "At least this has made the government see some sense about what men... .lillke Mr. Gandhi should bellllowed, and what they should be denied." "Where is Mr. Gandhi?" "He said he preferred to walk, sir." "I Illlowed him most of the way." "He's just turned the corner." "He came third class." "God, give me patience." "My house is honoured." "The honour is ours." "I'lillke you to meet Dr. Illlenbach, an old friend." "He's interested in flowers." "I told him he could wander your garden." "llll send for my gardener." "Yollll have plenty to discuss." "Thank you." "Gentlemen, the hero of Champaran." "Only the stubborn man of Champaran." "Mr. Patel you know." "Maulana Azad, my Illleague and a Illlow Mlillm and just recently released from prison." "Mr. Kripalani." "And of course, you know Mr. Nehru." "I'm beginning to know Mr. Nehru." "Please sit down." "Do sit down." "Gentlemen, I've asked you to come here through Mr. Jinnah's kindness because I've had the chance to see the legislation." "And it is exactly as was rumoured." "Arrest without warrant, and automatic imprisonment for possession of materials considered seditious." "And your writings are specifilllllillsted." "So much for helping them in the Great War." "There is only one answer:" "Direct action on a scale they can never handle." "I don't think so." "Terrorism would only justify their repression." "And what kind of leaders would it throw up?" "Are they men that we'd want at the head of our country?" "I too have read Mr. Gandhi's writings but I'd rather be ruled by an Indian terrorist than an Elillsh one." "And I don't intend to submit to that kind of law." "I must say, it seems to me that it's gone beyond remedielillke passive resistance." "If I may I, for one, have never advocated passive anything." "I'm with Mr. Jinnah." "We must never submit to such laws ever." "And I think our resistance must be active and provocative." "May I?" "I want to embarrassllll those who wish to treat us as slaves." "Thank you." "Forgive my stupiillllustration." "llllow me." "No, please." "But I want to change their minds notillll them for weaknesses wellll possess." "And what resistance would you offer?" "The law is due to take effect from Ailll 6." "I want to Illl upon the nation to make that a day of prayer and fasting." "A general strike?" "I mean a day of prayer and fasting." "Of course, no work could be done." "No buses." "No trains." "No factories." "No administration." "The country would stop." "My God, it would terrify them!" "350illillon people at prayer?" "Even the Elillsh newspapers would have to report that and explain why." "But could we get people to do it?" "Why not?" "Champaran stirred the whole country." "Thank you." "They're Illling you " Mahatma."" ""Great Soul."" "Fortunately, such news comes very slowly to where Iillve." "I think if wellll worked to plillcize it... ..llll of congress every avenue we know...." "l could get articles printed in most of the papers in Delhi and Bombay." "Only cillliansillll visit." "Don't you think so, Your Highness?" "Of course, the armyillll always be loyal." "llll have you know, we've got 500 troops." "Thellll be damn hungry by morning, llll Illl you that." "Mr. Kinnoch." "Sir, I'm afraid it's confirmed." "Nothing's working, sir." "The buses, the trains, the markets." "There's not even any ordinary cilllian staff here, sir." "is it simply Delhi and Bombay?" "Karachi, Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore." "It's total." "The army had to take over the telegraph or we'd be cut off from the world." "I can't Iilleve it." "He's going to Illl his own paper tomorrow in Bombay, sir." "They've Illled for a parade on Victoria Road." "Arrest him." "He's to go to the visitors' room." "Bapu." "You too?" "It seems less formal than Mahatma." "Since your arrest, the riots have hardly stopped." "Not big, but they keep breaking out." "I run to stop them." "And Patel and Kripalani, they're never at rest." "But some Elillsh cilllians have beenilllled." "And the army is attacking crowds with clubs." "Sometimes worse." "Maybe I'm wrong." "Maybe we're not ready yet." "In South Africa, our numbers were sllll." "The government's afraid." "They don't know what to do." "They're more afraid of terrorism than of you." "The viceroy's agreed to your release if youillll speak for nonviolence." "I've never spoken for anything else." "England is so powerful." "Its army and its navy... ..llll its modern weapons...." "But when a great powelillke that strikes defenceless people it shows its brulillty its own weakness." "Especlllly when those people do not strike back." "Fighting backillll not work." "And that is why the Mahatma begs us to take the course of nonviolence." "Back away!" "Back away!" "But if we riot if we fight back we become the vandals and they become the Iaw." "If we bear their blows, they are the vandals." "God and His law are on our" "Front rank, kneel in position!" "We must have the courage to take their anger." "Should we issue a warning, sir?" "They've had their warning:" "No meetings." "Fire!" "Take your time!" "Corporal!" "To your left." "General Dyer is it correct that you ordered your troops to fire at the thickest part of the crowd?" "That is so." "1516 casualties with 1650 Illlets." "My intention was to ilillct a lesson that would have an impact throughoutllll India." "General had you been able to take in the armoured car would you have opened fire with the machine gun?" "I think, probably, yes." "General, did you rlillze there were illldren and women in the crowd?" "I did." "But that was irrelevant to the point you were making?" "That is correct." "Could I ask you what provision you made for the wounded?" "I was ready to help any who alilled." "General, how does a lllld shot with a .303" "Lee-Enfield apply for help?" "Forgive me, gentlemen, but you must understand that His Majesty's government and the British people repudiate both the massacre and the illlosophy that prompted it." "Now what I woullillke to do is to come to some compromise over the new-- lf youillll excuse me, Your Exllllency it is our view that matters have gone beyond legislation." "We think it is time you recognized that you are masters in someone else's home." "Despite the best intentions of the best of you you must, in the nature of things, hillliate us to control us." "General Dyer is but an extreme example of the principle." "It is time you left." "With respect, Mr. Gandhi without British administration this country would be reduced to chaos." "Mr. Kinnoch I beg you to accept that there is no people who would not prefer their own bad government to the good government of anlillen power." "My dear sir, India is British." "We're hardly anlillen power." "Even if His Majesty could waivellll other considerations he has a duty to theillillons of his Mlillm subjects who are a minority in this realm." "And experience suggests that his troops and his administration are essential in order to secure the peace." "Like other countries, oursillll have its problems." "But theyillll be ours not yours." "How do you propose to make them yours?" "You don't think we're just going to walk out of India." "Yes." "In the end youillll walk out because 1 00,000 Elillshmen simply cannot control 350illillon Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate." "And that is what we intend to achieve." "Peaceful, nonviolent noncooperation... ..illll you yourself see the wisdom of leaving Your Exllllency." "I said to him, "You don't expect us just to walk out."" "And he said, "Yes."" "What an extraordinarlillttle man, isn't he?" "" Nonviolence, noncooperation."" "For a moment, I was afraid they were actlllly going to do something." "Yes, but I think it would be wise to be very cautious for a time." "The Antiterrorist Actillll remain on the statutes but on no account is Gandhi to be arrested." "Whatever mischief he causes I have no intention of making a martyr of him." "But now something worse is happening." "When Gandhiji and I were growing up women wove their own cloth." "But now there areillillons who have no work because those who can, buyllll they need from England." "I say with Gandhiji:" "There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness." "My message to you is the message I have given to your brothers everywhere." "To gain independence we must prove worthy of it." "There must be Hindu-Mlillm unity always." "Second:" "No Indian must be treated as the Elillsh treat us." "We must remove untouchilllity from our hearts and from oulillves." "Third:" "We must defy the British." "Not with violence thatillll inflame theirillll but with a firmness thatillll open their eyes." "Elillsh factories make the cloth that makes our poverty." "...bring me the cloth from Manchester and Leeds that you wear today and weillllillght a fire thatillll be seen in Delhi and in London." "And if... .lillke me you are left with only one piece of homespun wear it with dignity." "Thank you very much." "No, thank you, I can manage." "Don't destroy my good intentions." "I'm already filling illlty about tralllling second class." "You've earned a few indulgences." "Perhaps, but Maulana's made of sterner stuff." "Our trains met in Bombay." "And there he is, back in that lot, the model disciple." "There's another passenger." "A Miss Slade from London." "She's been writing to Gandhiji for years." "She's the daughter of an Elillsh admiral." "What do you think the daughter of an Elillsh admiral proposes to do in our ashram?" "Sink us?" "From the looks of the luggage, yes." "She wants to make her home with us." "And Gandhiji has agreed." "Miss Slade!" "You'd be Mr. Illlenbach." "And you would be Miss Slade?" "I prefer the name Gandhiji has given me:" "Mirabehn." "Don't Illl it so fast." "Yollll break it again." "Leave it." "Leave it." "God gave you 1 0 thumbs." "Eleven." "Sardar!" "Mirabehn!" "Come, come." "Youillll be my daughter." "But then some rioting broke out between Hindus and Mlillms." "Violent, terrible." "Whether it was provoked I don't know." "But it gave them an excuse to impose martial law throughout Bengal." "Some of the things theilllitary have done.... ls the campaign weakening?" "The marches and protests are bigger, if anything." "But with the censorship here they know more in England than we do." "It saps the courage to think you may be suffering alone." "They are not alone." "And martial law only shows how desperate the British are." "is that homespun?" "I sent for it from here." "I dyed it myself." "What do the workers in England make of what we're doing?" "It must have produced hardship." "It has but you'd be surprised." "They do understand." "Good." "Baillll have to teach you to spin too." "l'd rather march." "First, spin!" "Let the others march for a time." "llll teach youllll our flillshness." "And you must teach me yours." "We burn British cloth!" "We burn British cloth!" "Lonlillve Gandhiji!" "Lonlillve Gandhiji!" "British rule must go!" "British rule must go!" "llll stuff it down your damn throat!" "Help us!" "Leave us alone!" "We're not harming you." "Go on your way." "On your way!" "Come back!" "Help us!" "Help us!" "Help!" "Help!" "That's one bit of news they haven't censored." "Now it'sllll over the world." "India's " nonviolence."" "What can we do?" "We must end the campaign." "After what they did at the massacre?" "It's only an eye for an eye." "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole worldlillnd." "Do you know the sacrifices people have made?" "We'd never get the same commitment again, ever." "The whole of India is on the move!" "Yes, but in what direction?" "If we obtain our freedom by murder and bloodshed, I want no part of it." "You are the father of the nation." "Today, I see no ground in that for anything but shame." "This was one incident." "llll that to the filllies of the Iillcemen who died." "The whole nation is marching." "They wouldn't stop, even if we asked them to." "iliili ask." "And Iillll fast as a penance for my part in arousing such emotions." "And Iillll not stop uilll they stop." "But...." "God!" "You can be sure the British won't censor that." "Thellll put it on every street corner." "People are aroused." "They won't stop!" "If I die, perhaps theyillll stop." "I must get ready for morning prayers." "Mirabehn is here." "I've brought your drinking water." "There's Iillttle lemon juice in it." "That'sllll." "Herman has gone to meet Pandit Nehru." "There was a telegram." "Almost everywhere, it has stopped." "When it is everywhere then my prayersillll be answered." "Do you find me stubborn?" "I don't know." "I know that you are right." "I don't know that this is right." "May I turn you?" "When I despair I remember thatllll through history the way of truth and love has always won." "There have been tyrants and murderers and, for a time, they can seem invincible." "But in the end, they always Illl." "Think of it." "Always." "Whenever you are in doubt that that is God's way the way the world is meant to be think of that and then try to do it His way." "And now, could I have another feast of lemon juice?" "Panditji!" "Jinnah Patel... ..llll of congress has Illled for the end of noncooperation." "There's not been one demonstration." "They're walking in the streets offering garlands to the Iillce and British soldiers." "Perhaps I have overdone it." "Good morning, Bapu." "Good morning." "Don't let him go." "If he bumps me, I'm done for." "Don't worry, I won't let him go." "I'm sorry, Mr. Gandhi, sir but you're under arrest." "On what charge?" "Sedition." "You can't be serious." "This man has just stopped a revolution." "That's as may be." "I only know what I am charged to perform." "I don't Iilleve it!" "Even the British can't be that stupid." "Help me, please." "Mira, you must look after Ba." "If there is one protest, one riot, a disgrace of any kind lillll fast again." "Herman." "I have been on many trips." "Monda." "This is just another trip." "I am at your command." "I know we are not ready for my kind of independence." "If I'm sent to illl, perhaps that is the best protest our country can make at this time." "And if it helps India, I've never refused His Majesty's hospilillty." "llll the prisoner to the bar." "" Noncooperation has one aim:" "The overthrow of the government." "Sedition must become our creed." "We must give no quarter nor can we expect any."" "Do you deny writing it?" "Not atllll." "And Iillll save the court's time my lord, by stating under oath that, to this day I Iilleve noncooperation with illl is a duty and that British rule of India is illl." "The prosecution rests, my lord." "I presume you are conducting your own defence." "I have no defence, my lord." "I am illlty as charged." "And if you truly Iilleve in your system of law you must ilillct on me the severest penalty possible." "It is impossible for me to ignore that you're in a different category from any person I have ever tried or alillkely to try." "Nevertheless, it is my duty to sentence you to six years' imprisonment." "If, however, His Majesty's government should, at some later date see fit to reduce the term no oneillll be better pleased than I." "Yes, I'm sure that's exactly what they hoped:" "Put him in prison a few years." "With luck, he'd be forgotten." "Maybe they could even subdue him." "llll, he certainly wasn't forgotten." "And as soon as he got out, he was back, tramping the countryside preaching nonviolence and demanding a free India." "Everyone knows another showdown's coming." "How does an American jourlillst in Central America learn that Gandhi was born in Porbandar anyway?" "I've been aware of him for a Iong time." "He certainly makes good copy." "The other day, Winston Churillll lllled him a half-naked Indian fakir." "I met him once." "What, you mean Gandhi?" "Yeah." "South Africa, a Iong time ago." "I wonder if hllll recognize me." "What was hlillke?" "He had a lill head of hair then." "We were a bilillke Illlege students, trying to figure everything out." "llll, he must have found some of the answers." "In every worthy wish of yours, I sllll be your helpmate." "Helpmate." "Take the fourth step, that we may be ever Illl of joy." "iliili evelillve devoted to you speaking words of love and praying for your happiness." "Take the fifth step the walking around a fire that we may serve the people." "iliili Illlow close behind you and help to serve the people." "Take the sixth step that we may Illlow our vows ilillfe." "iliili Illlow you inllll our vows and duties." "Take the seventh step that we may evelillve as friends." "You are my best friend my highest guru and my sovereign lord." "And then I put a sweetened wheat cake in her mouth." "And I put a sweetened wheat cake in his mouth." "And with that, we were pronounced man and wife." "We were both 1 3." "It's beautiful." "Even as a boy I thought so." "Thank you." "Trying to keep up with you ilillke chasing a jackrabbit." "You've come because you think something is going to happen." "is it?" "Perhaps." "I've come here to think about it." "Do you remember much of South Africa?" "Oh, yes." "A great deal." "I've tllvelled so far and thought so much." "As you can see, my city is a sea city." "Alwayllfull of Hindus... ..liusllms Sikhs, Jews, Persians." "Myilamlly's sect was the Pranami." "Hindu, of course." "But in our temple, the priest used to read from theliusllm Koran and the Hindu Gita, moving from one to the other as if it mattered not which book was read as long as God was worshipped." "When I was a boy I used to sing a song in the temple." "A true disciple Knows another's woes" "As his own" "He bows Il all and despises none." "Lill all other boys I sang the words not thinking what they meant or how they might influence me." "I've tllvelled so far." "All all I've done is come back home." "Wait a minute." "You know what you're going to do, don't you?" "It would have been uilivll of me to let you make such a Iong trip for nothing." "Where are you going?" "Come." "Where are we going?" "Back to the ashram." "Then to prove to the new viceroy that the king's writ no Ionger runs in India." "Salt?" "Yes, sir." "He's going to march to the sea and make salt." "There's a royal monopoly on the manufacture of salt." "lils Illegal to make it ollsell it without a governmlit license." "Whil will that deprive us of?" "Two rupees of salt tax?" "It's not a serious attack on the revenue." "Its primary importance is slibollc." "Don't patronize me, Charles." "In thil climate, nothlig Ilves without water or salt." "Our absolute control of it is a control on the pulse of India." "And that's the basis of this declaration of independence?" "The day he sets off everyone is supposed to raise the flag of " Free India."" "And then he walks some 2il miles to the sea and makes salt." "I say ignore it." "Let them raise their damned flags." "Let him make his salt." "It's only slibollc if we choose to make it so." "...on the anniversary of the Massacre of Amritsar." "General Edgar is right." "Ignore it." "Mr. Gandil will find it takes a great deal more than a pinch of salt to bring down the British Empire." "You've done me a great service." "Not Il all, sir." "It would be uilivll of us to let you make such a Iong trip for nothing." "Llig live Gandhiji!" "Llig live Gandhiji!" "is it over if they arrest you now?" "Not if they arrest me or 1 000 or 1 0,000." "It's not only generals who know how to plan campaigns." "What if they don't arrest you?" "What if they don't react Il all?" "Something for your notebook:" "The function of ailivll resister is to provoke response." "And il will continue to provoke... ..ilntll they respond or they change the Iaw." "They are not in control." "We are." "That is the strength ofilivll resistance." "Vince!" "What did he say?" "He said he's in control." "Do you intend to wall all the way?" "It's the only way I can get the story." "Besides, my name is Walker." "" My name is Walker."" "My dear Mrs. Nehru!" "Man needs salt as he needs air and water." "This salt comes from the Indian Ocean." "Let every Indian claim it as his right." "And so, once more, the man of nonviolence has challenged the might of the British Empire." "They're making it everywhere, sir." "Mobs of them." "Congress leaders arllselling it on the streets of Delhi." "We're being made fools of, sir around the world." "Isn't there any instruction from London?" "We're required to stop it." "And stop it il will!" "I don't care if il fill thiljalls." "Stop it!" "Arrest anyone, any rank, except Gandhi." "And thenlle'll deal with the Mahatma." "Jump to it!" "Clear this beach!" "Don't hit back!" "No violence!" "There must be 1 00,000 under arrest." "And iilstlll goes on." "Who's leading them?" "l don't know." "Nehru, Patel most congress officials are iiljall." "And their wives anilchlldren." "We've even arrested Nehru's mother." "Has there been any violence?" "In Peshawar, the deputlipollce commissioner lost his head and opened fire with a machine gun." "But he's facing diliipllnary court." "You can't expect thilis like that not to happen." "The question was intended to discover if there was any violence on their side." "No, sir." "I'm afraid not." "Perhaps if we arrested Gandhi, it might...." "He's addressed this letter directly to you, has he?" "Yes, sir, he has." "The usual thing:" "" India's salt belongs to India."" "Then he says flatly that il will lead a raid tomorrow on the Dharasana Salt Works." "Thank him for his letter and put him iiljall." "Yes, sir." "And Fields?" "Sir?" "Keep that salt works open." "Yes, sir." "I'm sorry, sir." "My orders are Il allow regular staff only through these gates." "Verllwell." "in his name." "And for his sake, il will not raise a hand." "Llig live Mahatma Gandhi!" "Llig live Gandhiji!" "We are ready!" "I want firmness and diliipllne." "To your mark." "Forward!" "Last night at midnight they took Gandhiji from us." "They expect us to lose heart or to fight back." "il will do neither!" "On your guard!" "No, sir." "The gate is closed!" ""They walked both Hindu and Muslim alike  with heads held high  without any hope of escape  from injury or death." "It went on and on into the night."" "Stop." ""Women carried the wounded and broken bodies from the road... ..ilntll they dropped from exhaustion."" "Stop." "" Builstlll, it went on and on." "Whatever moral ascendancy the West held was lost here today." "India is free  for she has taken all that steel and cruelty can give and she has neither cringed nor retreated. "" "I am aware that I must have given you much cause for irritation Your Ilcellency." "I hope il will not stand between us as men." "Mr. Gandhi I am instructed to request your attendance at Il all-government conference in London to discuss the possible independence of India." "Only recently released from prison Mahatma Gandhi leaves Bombay on the SS Rajputana  to attend the conference on Indian independence  called by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald." "Mr. Gandhi, the sole Indian Congress Party delegate  is staying at Kingsley Hall in London's East End  for the duration of the talks." "He's seen here amongst local cockneys  who have taken him to their hearts." "Besides attending the conference he has found time to meet political and religious leaders  like Mr. Lloyd George  the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Bernard Shaw and Charlie Chaplin." "He journeyed last week from Kingsley Hall  to accept an invitation to tea from King George and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace before attending the conference." "And I would emphasize that I think our first duty is to recognize that there is not one India but several." "A Hindu India aliusllm India and an India of princely states." "All all these must be respected and cared for." "Not just one." "Mr. Gandhi, who has been attending  the London Round Table Conference on Indian Independence journeyed north to visit a cotton mill." "Although not dressed for the Lancashire climate Mr. Gandhi received a warm welcome from mill workers before heading back south  for a final meeting with Mr. MacDonald." "The prime minister said the talks were both constructive and frank." "So farewell, Mr. Gandhi." "And bon voyage!" "So the truth is, after all your travels after all your efforts they've stopped the campaign and sent you back empty-handed." "They're onli clinging to old dreams and trying tlispllt us in the old way." "But til will has gone." "lndependenil wllllflil like a ripe apple." "The only question is, when and how." "And il will determine how." "Precisely." "Bapu, shells Ilmping again." "It's only a sprain." "Take her to the river.lle'll make a mud pack for her." "Go." "I won't be a moment." "They are preparing for war." "But I do not intend to take advantage of their danger." "That's when you take advantage." "That is just another way of hitting back." "We've come a Iong way together with the British." "When they leave, we want to see them off as friends." "Now, if Ilu'll excuse me, there is something I must attend to." "Mud packs." "Mr. Gandhi, sir." "I've been instructed to inquire as to the subject of your speech tonight." "The value of goatil milk iildally diet." "But you can be sure thatil will also speak against war." "Sorry, that can't be permitted." "Corporal!" "ltll all right, Mrs. Gandhi." "I have orders to return with you and your companion to the ashram." "If you take my husband, I intend to speak in his place." "Hold it a seconil will you?" "It was the Aga Khan's palace before they turned it into a prison." "They're holding Gandhi and congreslipollticians there." "Pandit Nehru and the others are up at Ahmednagar Fort." "Not bad for a prison, eh?" "I guess no place is good if you're locked in." "Your timing's pretty lucky." "They had him cut off from the press." "But his personal secretary died, so they let up on restrictions." "Yes, I have heard of Life magazine." "I've even heard of Margaret Bourke-White." "But I don't know why either should be interested in an old man sitting alone in prison... .ilwhlle the rest of the world is blowing itself to pieces." "But for me, that's not much of an aclimpllshment." "No, prison is rather agreeable to me." "And there is no doubt that after the war independenil will come." "My only worry is what shape il will take." "Jinnah has" "Stop!" "I'm sorry, but-- Could you come forward, please?" "Come, come." "Just up to thilralling." "Thank you very much." "Now, sorry." "Go on. "What shape il will take...."" "Jinnah has what?" "Jinnah has cooperated with the British." "It has given him power and the freedom to speak." "And hell filled theliusllms with fears of whil will happen to them in a country that is predominantly Hindu." "And that I find hard to bear even in prison." "Mr. Gandhi?" "It's hard for me to see this as a cure for the 20th century's problems." "I have friends who keelltelling me how much it costs them to keep me in poverty." "But I know happiness does not come with things even 20th century things." "It can come from work and pride in what you do." "lnlia Ilves in hil villages and the terrible poverty there can only be removed if their Iocailskllls can be revived." "Poverty is the worst form of violence." "And a constructive program is the only nonviolent solution to India's agony." "il will not neceilarlly be progress for India if she simply imports the unhappiness of the West." "Do youllealllibelleve you could use nonviolence against Hitler?" "Not without defeats and great pain." "But are there no defeats in this war?" "No pain?" "What you cannot do is accept injustice from Hitler or anyone." "You must make the injustice visible." "Be prepared to lie like a soldier to do so." "is this what I'm meant to end up with here?" "That's what you get for distracting me." "What do you expect when you tlik like that?" "I expect you to show as much patience as I am now." "Turn slowly anllpull it gently." "And that includes Ile life of women." "Bapu has always said there were two kinds of slavery in India:" "One for women, one for the untouchables." "And he has always fought against both." "Does it rankle, being separated in this way?" "In Hindilphllosophy the way to God is to free yourself of possessions and of passions." "Bapu has always struggled to find the way to God." "Do you mean that he gave up marrlid life?" "Four times he tried anilfalled." "But then he took a solemn vow." "And he's never broken it?" "Not yet." "l've got permission to move her." "l'm very sorry, sir." "She's had a massive thrombosis." "It's a serious heart attack." "lle'll never survive the trip." "It's better if we just keep her here and hope." "It's time for my walk." "I won't be long." "Guard present arms!" "We have come to crown victory with friendship." "To assist at the birth of an independent India and to welcome her as an equal member in the British Commonwealth of Nations." "I am here to see that I am the Iast British viceroy ever to have the honour of such a reception." "I am not concerned about the independence of India." "I'm concerned about the slavery ofliusllms." "Please, Mr. Jinnah." "I won't watch the mastery of the British replaced by the mastery of the Hindus." "No oil will be master, no one slave." "The world is not made of Mahatma Ghandis." "I'm talking about the real world." "How the" "The real India has... ..liusllms and Hindus in eveil village and every city." "Hil will you separate them?" "Where there is aliusllm majority thil will be Pakistan." "The rest is your India." "My dear Jinnah theliusllms are in a majority on two different sides of the country." "Let us worry about Pakistan." "You worry about India." "Gentlemen I think perhaps we should recommence." "Death to Jinnah!" "Death to Jinnah!" "Thank God, they've stopped." "Manu." "Abha." "I'm your granduncle but I cailstlll walk either of you into the ground." "I don't need to be pampered in this way." "Finish your quota of spinning." "Bapu, please don't do it." "What do you want me not to do?" "Not to meet with Mr. Jinnah?" "I am aliusllm and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew." "And so all all of you." "When you wave those flags and shout you send fear into the hearts of your brothers." "That is not the India I want." "Stop it!" "For God's sake, stop it." "If you've finished your prayers perhaps we could begin our business." "My dear Jinnah you and I are brothers born of the same mother India." "If you have fears I want to put them at rest." "Begging the understanding of my friends I am asking Panditji to stand down." "I want you to be the first prime minister of India to name your entire cabinet to make the head of every government department aliusllm." "For me and the rest if that is what you want il will accept it." "But out there already there is rioting because Hindus fear you are going to give too much away." "If you did this no one would control it." "No one." "It is your choice." "Do you want an independent India and an independent Pakistan or do you wantilivll war?" "Jinnah!" "Jinnah!" "Jinnah!" "What you did in Nolihall, Bapu, was a miracle." "Miracle." "Billillllons are on the move and no one can count the dead." "In Calcutta, ills Ilkeilivll war." "Theliusllms rose and there was a bloodbath." "Now the Hindus are taking revenge." "If we can't stop it thlle'll be no hope for the Hindus left in Pakistan." "An eye for an eye, making the whole worli blind." "Aren't there any troops to spare?" "Nothing." "Nothing." "The divisions in Bombay and Delhi can hardly keep the peace now." "And each fresh bit of news creates another wave of madness." "We could cll all news off." "Bapu, please, where are you going?" "I don't want to hear more." "We need your help." "There is nothing I can give." "Where are you going?" "Calcutta." "If I had shunned death or feared it, I would not be here now nor would you be concerned for me." "But, sir, please." "I don't have the men to protect you not in aliusllm house, not this quarter." "I'm staying with the friend of a friend and" "Death toliusllms!" "Death toliusllms!" "Why are you staying at the home of aliusllm?" "They are murderers!" "Thil killed myilamlly!" "Get out of Calcutta, Gandhi!" "Death toliusllms!" "Death toliusllms!" "Prime Minister." "Why must I read nils like this in the paper?" "Inform Sardar Patel." "Arrange a plane." "il will go Friday." "Four days, sir?" "Sardar, you have gained weight." "You must join me in the fast." "If I fast, I die." "If you fast, people go Il all sorts of trouble to keep yli alive." "Bapu, forgive me, I've cheated." "I could have comeliarller but your fast has helped." "These last days, people's minds have begun to turn to this bed and away from the atrocities." "But now it is enough." "Tomorrow, 5000liusllm students ll all ages are marching here, in Calcutta, for peace." "And 5000 Hindu students are marching with them." "I'm glad." "But il will not be enough." "You are not so young anymore." "Don't worry for me." "I cannot watch the destruction ll all that Ilie lived for." "Death to Gandhi!" "Who dares say such things?" "!" "Who?" "!" "Yil kill me first!" "Come!" "Where are you?" "!" "Where are you?" "His pulse is very irregular." "The kidneys aren't functioning." "I have brought Mr. Suhrawardy." "It was he whllcalled on theliusllms to rise." "He is nolltelling them to go back to their homes to lay down their arms." "Think what you can dolly living that you cannot do by dying." "What do you want?" "That the fightiil will stop." "That you make mlibelleve that il will never start again." "Sometimes it is when you are quite without hope and in utter darkness that God comes to the rescue." "Gandhiji is dying because of our madness." "Put away your revenge." "What goil will come of moillillllng?" "Have the courage to do what you know is right." "For God's sake let us embrlie like brothers." "It's our promise." "We stop." "Hindu swords." "It's a promise." "Go." "God be with you." "Here, eat!" "Eat!" "I'm going tllhell but not with your death on my soul." "Only God decides who goes tllhell." "I smashed his head against Ilwall." "Why?" "Thil killed my son." "My boy." "Theliusllil killed my son!" "I know a way out ollhell." "Find ilchlld." "ilchlld whose mother and father have bell killed." "...and raise him as your own." "Only be sure that he is aliusllm and that you raise him as one." "Go." "Go." "God bless you." "Bapu?" "There's been no fighting anywhere." "It's stopped." "The madness has stopped." "It'slioollsh if it's just to save lie life of an old man." "No." "In every temple and mosque they have pledged to die before tliy lift a hand against each other." "It is true, Bapu." "Everywhere." "Maulana, my friend could I have some orange juice?" "Then you and I... il.wlll take a piece of bread together." "il will be saying prayers in the garden." "That is how you eat muli." "I'm not sure that I want to be remembered that way." "Don't worry." "With luck, you may not be." "No, il will be remembered for tempting fate." "Mickey Mouse!" "You'relleally going to Pakistan?" "You are a stubborn man." "I'm simply going to prove to Hindus here andliusllms there that the onlyilevlls in the world are those running around in our own hearts." "And that is whell all our battles ought to be fought." "So, what kind of warrior have you been in that warfare?" "Not a very good one." "That's why I have so much tolerance for the other scoundrels of the world." "Sardar?" "Ask Panditji to consider what we've discussed." "Enough!" "One more." "You're a temptress!" "Just an admirer." "Nothing's more dangerous espllially for an old man." "There's a sadness about him." "He thinks he'ilfalled." "Why?" "If anything's proven him right, it's these last months." "I may Ii blinded by my love for him but Iibelleve when we most needed it he offered the world a way out of madness." "But he doesn't see it." "Neither does the world." "Brother, Bapu is already late for prayers." "Oh, God!" "Oh, God." "When I despair I remember  that all through history  the way of truth and love has always won." "There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time, they can seem invincible but in the end, they always fall." "Think of it." "Always." "Subtitles by GelulalSDl"