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Gandhi Portrayal of a Friend GANDHI PORTRAYAL OF A FRIEND E.STANLEY JONES NOTES Foreword 1. Gandhi, “Hinduism,” Young India, October 6, 1921; as published in Young India (1919–1922) (S. Ganesan, 1922), 804. 2. Gandhi, Young India, October 20, 1927. 3. Robert Browning, “Paracelsus,” The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Brown- ing (Cambridge, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895), 17. 2. Antitheses Strongly Marked 1. John Addington Symonds, “These Things Shall Be, a Loftier Race” (1880). 4. The Coming into Being of Pakistan 1. https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/constitution-india/constitution-india -full-text. 2. Since January 24, 1950, the national anthem of India has been “Jana-gana- mana.” See Britannica Encyclopedia of India (2008). 3. Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India, first US edition (Garden City, NY: The John Day Company, 1946), 354. 5. Gandhi and the Christian Faith 1. Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (London: Phoenix Press, 1949), 133. 2. Gandhi, An Autobiography, 58. 3. Gandhi, An Autobiography, 15. 4. No original source was found for the quotation. 5. Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, October 20, 1927. 6. No original source was found for the quotation. 7. “Letter to Lord Irwin, March 2, 1930,” The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 43 (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Trust, 1971), 6. 8. M. K. Gandhi, Christian Missions: Their Place in India, ed. Bharatan Kumarap- pa (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1941), pages unknown. 9. E. Stanley Jones, The Fellowship (edition unavailable). 10. No original source was found for the quotation. 11. Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1993/1957, first American edition), 32. 12. Collected Works, vol. 68 (1977), 297. 6. My Experiments with Truth 1. Young India, August 15, 1929. 2. No original source was found for the quotation. 3. C. F. Andrews, ed., Mahatma Gandhi—His Own Story (New York: Macmillan, 1930), 225. 7. The Center of Gandhi’s Contribution—Satyagraha 1. Shamal Bhatt (1718–1765, a Gujarati poet), quoted in Mahatma Gandhi, An Au- tobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018), 99. 2. Gandhi, An Autobiography, 149. 3. Harijan, December 10, 1938. 4. Harijan, March 23, 1940. 5. Collected Works, vol. 68 (1977), 172. 6. Collected Works, vol. 32 (1969), 587. 7. Y. G. Krishnamurti, Gandhi Era in World Politics (Bombay, India: Popular Book Depot, 1943), 42. 8. Krishnamurti, Gandhi Era, 79–80. 9. James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis,” in The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems (Boston: Benj. H. Sanborn and Co., 1899), 34. 10. Collected Works, vol. 52 (1972), 114. 11. C. F. Andrews, Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas (New York: Macmillan: 1930), 290. 12. Collected Works, vol. 23 (1967), 114–20. 13. Richard B. Gregg, The Power of Non-Violence (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1934), 35–36. 14. Excerpts from Collected Works, vol. 21 (1966), 151; vol. 22 (1966), 417, 419. 15. Collected Works, vol. 85 (1982), 151. 16. No original source was found for the quotation. 17. No original source was found for the quotation. Louis Fischer wrote several books on the life and work of Gandhi. 18. Collected Works, vol. 86 (1982), 87–88. 19. Collected Works, vol. 83 (1981), 222, 221. 20. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Non-Violence in Peace and War, vol. 2 (1949), 21; as quoted in Thomas Merton, ed., Gandhi on Non-Violence (New York: New Direc- tions, 1965), 49. 21. Collected Works, vol. 15 (1965), 191. Some sources also include the final sen- tence (in brackets). 22. Collected Works, vol. 42 (1970), 491–92. 23. No original source was found for the quotation. 24. No original source was found for the quotation. S. Radhakrishnan wrote several books about Mahatma Gandhi. 25. “Some Proofs of the Universality of Satyagraha,” Young India (1919–1922) (S. Ganesan, 1922), 51, 50; accessed through https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org. 26. Collected Works, vol. 10 (1963), 51. Some sources also include the material shown in square brackets. 27. No original source was found for the quotation from the Bishop of Madras, but it is widely cited. 28. No original source was found for the quotation from broadcaster and author, Lionel Fielden. 29. No original source was found for the quotation from Rufus Jones. 8. The Fastings of the Mahatma 1. Victor Alexander John Hope Marquess of Linlithgow, Speeches and Statements (India: Bureau of Public Information, Government of India, 1945), 425. 2. Collected Works, vol. 25 (1967), 175. 3. No original source was found for the quotation from Indian statesman, Jag Pravesh Chandra. 4. No original source was found for the quotation. 5. Collected Works, vol. 69 (1977), 11. 6. Collected Works, vol. 25 (1967), 171. 7. Collected Works, vol. 29 (1968), 293–94. 8. Collected Works, vol. 29, 291. 9. Editorial comment, Indian Social Reformer, May 1922. 10. Annie H. Barker, “When the Mists Have Rolled Away,” 1883. 11. Quotation from News Chronicle (London, 1939). 12. Collected Works, vol. 69 (1977), 271. 13. Collected Works, vol. 69, 269–71. 14. Collected Works, vol. 69, 282. 15. Collected Works, vol. 69, 271 16. Collected Works, vol. 77 (1979), 60. 17. Direct quotations in this section were not found. See Collected Works, vol. 89 (1983), 28–47 for coverage of these events. 18. No original source was found for the direct quotation of the list of conditions. See Collected Works, vol. 90 (1984), 438–44, for similar language and other writ- ings related to these events. 19. While this poem is widely quoted, no source was found that listed an author. 9. Sevagram Versus Delhi 1. John Ruskin, Modern Painters (New York: J. Wiley, 1860), 283. 2. No original source was found for this quotation from Jawaharlal Nehru. 3. For information on current activities of Sarvoydaya in the US, see http://www .sarvodayausa.org/. 4. No original source was found for this quotation from Rabindranath Tagore. 5. K. Shridharani, War Without Violence (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939), 246. 6. Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History, abridgement of Volumes 1–6 by D. C. Somervell (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 379. 7. No original source was found for this quotation. 8. Y. G. Krishnamurti, Gandhi Era in World Politics (Bombay, India: Popular Book Depot, 1943), 41. 9. No original source was found for this quotation from Acharya Kripalani. 10. Gandhi’s India—The Outlook 1. https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/constitution-india/constitution-india -full-text. 2. Collected Works, vol. 37 (1970), 270. 3. The edition of Young India in which these quotations appear is not available. 4. The edition of Young India in which these quotations appear is not available. 5. Collected Works, vol. 34 (1969), 483. 6. Collected Works, vol. 43 (1971), 219–20. 7. No original source was found for the quotation from Benjamin Kidd. 8. Collected Works, vol. 70 (1977), 381. 9. Jawaharlal Nehru, Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru (New York: The John Day Co., 1941), 240. 10. No original source found for this quotation from Jawaharlal Nehru. 11. “Bapu Is Finished”—Is He? 1. Charles R. Kennedy, The Terrible Meek (New York and London: Harper & Broth- ers, 1912), 39. 2. Leo Tolstoy’s Letter to Gandhi, September 7, 1910, in Collected Works, vol. 10 (1963), 513. 3. George Bernard Shaw’s widely quoted comment on the death of Gandhi. 4. Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes. BrainyQuote.com, Xplore Inc, 2018. https://www .brainyquote.com/quotes/napoleon_bonaparte_118625, accessed September 13, 2018..
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