Biographer's journey in search of Mahatma

Born in India made in South Africa Gandhi was deeply attached to United Kingdom and the city of the London in particular.

he had been a law student in London between 1888 and 1891 and later made for extended visit to the city.

in 19 699 1940 1931 respectively many decades letter I look for Gandhiji related record in London which wire most abundantly available in the British laboratory and in its India office collection in particular.

warehouses the papers of several viceroy of India among them Lord Arvind and Lord Mountbatten. the former most useful in reconstructing the history of the salt march I was given to find Arvind right for advice on how to deal with Gandhi to the the RCB shop of century the letter for understanding this cause of consequences of the partition of India.

I also read here the papers of successive governor of the Bombay Presidency who had to follow the activities of Gandhi most closed since both of the city of Ahmedabad where he lives from 19152 1930 and the prison of Pune where he spend much time in 1920 and 1930 and 1948 in their jurisdiction.

the sources notes of the two volumes of my biography give details of the material that I had found in the division of different collections I consulted in the British laboratory let me add one more personal memory I hear the BL contained small collection of the paper of Henry to lock a Jewish radical who had worked closely with Gandhi in South Africa.

these including some letter from Gandhi to polar that was not in the collected works written shortly before he was arrested in the Satyagraha of 1913.

this was an exciting in the important Discovery the problems while that they were handwritten and Gandhi's band was all of its three language extremely hard to decimal reading this letter I could not easily distinguish I am from t and c from fortunately the sit next to was a young scholar who built with the mediaeval manuscript in English Hindi Sanskrit and Persian and why does particularly well equipped to make sentence of strange handwriting.

text her to come help me and feed her name was Supriya Gandhi daughter of rajamohan of that area and who was then doing a PhD at Harvard. so it was a great Grand daughter of Gandhi who helped me some real unpublished letter written by Gandhi and now housed in the British Library.
It was a just position which delighted me and would surely have dedicated Gandhi too.

to find material on aur around Gandhi I travel once to Israel several time to South Africa and doesn't of x to the United Kingdom. while in the United State on other work I also visited achieved in that country consulting the piece collection in the earth more college where arrested in the paper of Gandhiji Quikr friend and studying the paper office early biographer Louis feature is played between the New York public library and the pin set on University.

to be sure I had also to spend time in the ATMs in Gandhi's Homeland searching for material previous biographers had not bothered to look for I found one the key file in the Uttar Pradesh state achieved in Lucknow on Gandhi's famous speech in Banaras in 1916 key file in the Maharashtra state advice in the Mumbai on Gandhiji in Pune and on Kasturba last illness and death and about 50k file in the national chief of India in Delhi some of the private paper of Gandhiji mental Gopal Krishna Gokhale in the foreign and political series dealing with price Li state but the majority in the home series this containing reach information on Gandhiji three major all India campaign the non cooperation and civil disobedience and Quit India Movement.

Non-Cooperation civil disobedience and Quit India Movement.

I also what extremely in the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad which are the best collection of letter to Gandhi as well as real newspaper clipping related to his life and struggle.

how were the a team in India and the World That Give me most material for my work was the Nehru Memorial Museum and the library nmml in New Delhi here I secured the paper of the numerous individual and Organisation is connected with Gandhi and the national movement look the micro film of the old newspaper and magazine and the radiant oral history of the transcript.

an important Discovery was a run of 18 microfilm each containing several hundred pages of the material from the Government house in Durban pertaining to condition of Indian in the South Africa in the Europe 1893 18 19 14 and the perceptions as well as the MS perception of the major leader Gandhi.
20 obtained by the nmml back in the 1989 there was no absolutely no political auto personal contact between India and South Africa epaper had been micro filter by the American scholar had worked in the oven and the returned with his Buti to his University in California word of what had visit in this animal outstanding tips and Deputy Director Harish Sharma who are the reasons for the copies of microfilm in the pot pot to news Delhi.