1. TELEGRAM TO THE AGA KHAN

SODEPUR, December 7, 1945 H. H. AGAKHAN BOMBAY MANY THANKS YOUR WIRE. WOULD LOVE TO MEET YOU AND LEARN FROM YOU WAY TO SOLUTION COMMUNAL PROBLEM. MAULANA IS ILL BUT AT WORK. EXPECTING TO REACH FEBRUARY. WRITING. From a copy: Pyarelal Papers. Courtesy: Pyarelal

2. LETTER TO JIVANJI D. DESAI SODEPUR, December 7, 1945 CHI. JIVANJI, I got your proof-copy of the pamphlet on constructive work yesterday. I wanted to use that copy here and did so. But I had already gone through the proof earlier. As there is no letter accom- panying it, I don’t quite understand why you have sent it. You have given a heading to my preface but there is no heading on the page on which the pamphlet itself begins. I infer from this that final touches still remain to be given to the printing. I have of course asked Pyare- lalji to write to you about this, but I think it is better to dictate this just now in the morning. I have the impression that I have already written to you about the cover. My suggestion is that the eighteen headings which you have given in the pamphlet should be reproduced on the cover in their proper order, with the page number given against each. This will help the reader and we shall be able to show what topics have been covered. The topics can also be shown on the cover in the form of a circle. We can have a drawing of the spinning-wheel in the centre and the head- ings can be printed round it like the planets round the sun. There is one difficulty in this, of course. How can communal unity be repre-

VOL. 89: 7 DECEMBER, 1945 - 24 FEBRUARY, 1946 1 sented as a planet? If it is so represented, my original conception would be vitiated, for the basic conception is that is the chief handicraft and that the other industries take their place and revolve round khadi like planets round the sun. If now we can find a place in this scheme for Adivasis, kisans, students and communal unity, then the conception will have been worked out. It might be better, there- fore, to give up the idea of the circle, or to form the circle only with khadi and cottage industries. But we need not waste any time over this, for it is essential that the pamphlet should be published as soon as possible. It is also necessary that the translations should be published simultaneously. It would, also, be good if at the end a supplementary list of other books to be read with the pamphlet are given. For example, Rajendra Babu’s book, Gulzarilal’s essay, etc. You may drop this also, if you cannot recollect the names of the books imme- diately. Pyarelal will most probably send you a wire today saying, “Send another copy proof.” The idea behind this is that if I have to correct the proof, the time which would be taken by an ordinary letter may be saved, for the copy which I have passed on is not likely to come back to me now.1 Blessings from From a photostat of the Gujarati: G.N. 9960. Also C.W. 6934. Courtesy: Jivanji D. Desai

3. LETTER TO JATINDAS AMIN SODEPUR, December 7, 1945 CHI. AMIN, I got your letter sent with Sushila. She arrived the day before yesterday. You do not seem to have calmed down yet. You can render great service if you calm down. Take up only a little work there. If you bring credit to it, it will be greatly appreciated. What you write is absolutely correct. Greatness lies in becoming small and smallness in assuming greatness. We should therfore only serve by becoming as small as dust particles.

1 This was given to R. G. Casey, the Governor or Bengal, vide ”Letter to R. G. Casey”,6-12-1945

2 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF Your camera is to be sent only with somebody going there, is that not so? I am sure you are not in a hurry. Blessings from BAPU From a copy of the Gujarati: Pyarelal Papers. Courtesy: Pyarelal

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