Free Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India by Joseph Lelyveld Page B

the diary of Nirmal Kumar Bose, p. 991, archive of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata.
    82    “
What in your opinion
”: Fischer,
Life of Mahatma Gandhi
, p. 451.
    83    
Twice in nine weeks
: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 1, p. 380.
    84    
He could only demonstrate
: From the diary of Nirmal Kumar Bose, p. 887, archive of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata.
    85    “
Our community today suffers
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 1, pp. 518, 520.
    86    
Early on he talked
: Ibid., pp. 386, 372.
    87    “
There will be no tears
”: Ibid., p. 321.
    88    “
If some ruffian
”: Ibid., p. 505.
    89    
Speaking to dispossessed
:
CWMG
, vol. 86, p. 305.
    90    “
He had told us
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 1, p. 417.
    91    “
Giving equality
”: Fischer,
Life of Mahatma Gandhi
, p. 436.
    92    “
If they still went on
”:
CWMG
, vol. 86, p. 305.
    93    
The next week he twice urges
: Ibid., pp. 348–50, 459.
    94    “
He has not always held
”: From the diary of Nirmal Kumar Bose, p. 1251, archive of the Asiatic Society, Kolkata.
    95    “
listened quietly
”: Talbot,
American Witness to India’s Partition
, p. 202.
    96    
There Gandhi stayed
: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 1, p. 559.
    97    
In Haimchar, which turned out
:
CWMG
, vol. 87, p. 17.
    98    
Though little was said in public
: Tidrick,
Gandhi
, p. 315.
    99    
Thakkar is finally persuaded
:
CWMG
, vol. 87, p. 63.
    100    
According to a less
: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 1, p. 587.
    101    
He’d said he was prepared
: Ibid., p. 356.
    102    
Nehru had been so appalled
: Fischer,
Life of Mahatma Gandhi
, p. 445.
    103    “
But if I leave
”: Manubehn Gandhi,
Lonely Pilgrim
, p. 157, cited by Narayan Desai,
My Life Is My Message
, vol. 4,
Svarpan
, p. 287. Rama is an incarnation of Vishnu, and the hero of the
Ramayana
, the Hindu epic. Gandhi takes his name as a synonym for “God.”
    104    
By June 1948
: Chatterji,
Spoils of Partition
, pp. 112–19.
    105    
The gathering ended:
The song they sang was a variation on an old devotional hymn,“Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram,” often described as Gandhi’s favorite hymn. Routinely, he would attach a line that proclaimed: “God or Allah is your name / Lord, bless everyone with this wisdom.” The words continue to recite many names for God, ending in a call for unity. On this occasion the improvised lyric included references to Buddhists and Christians.

CHAPTER 12: DO OR DIE
     
    1    “
The rest of my life
”:
CWMG
, vol. 89, pp. 10–11.
    2    
The only way he could cling
: Ibid., p. 21.
    3    “
Today he himself
”: Narayan Desai,
My Life Is My Message
, vol. 4,
Svarpan
, p. 393.
    4    
By then, hundreds of thousands
: The influx of refugees is well described by Guha in
India After Gandhi
, pp. 97–108.
    5    “
The country was partitioned
”: Lohia,
Guilty Men of India’s Partition
, p. 44.
    6    
An impatient Nehru said
: Tunzelmann,
Indian Summer
, p. 388.
    7    
A pressing invitation
: Tendulkar,
Mahatma
, vol. 7, p. 162. He had also proposed giving the Viceregal Lodge to the Harijans.
    8    
Since Hindus and Muslims
: Campbell-Johnson,
Mission with Mountbatten
, p. 110.
    9    
It was part of Gandhi’s proposal
: Collins and Lapierre,
Mountbatten and the Partition of India
, pp. 34–35.
    10    
Mountbatten, understandably, declined
: Campbell-Johnson,
Mission with Mountbatten
, p. 55.
    11    “
Thus I have to ask you
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 2, p. 85.
    12    
When the viceroy first heard
: Campbell-Johnson,
Mission with Mountbatten
, p. 52.
    13    “
Jinnah won’t be able
”: Collins and Lapierre,
Mountbatten and the Partition of India
, p. 33.
    14    
Often the killings
:
CWMG
, vol. 87, p. 52.
    15    “
I hate to hear
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 2,