Dera ghazi khan biography of mahatma
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About the Book
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a compulsive letter writer. The most exciting portions of his writings (and responses to those) concern his women associates. Mahatma Gandhi's Letters on Brahmacharya, Sexuality and Love deals with his cardinal principles of brahmacharya on par with satyagraha.
A definitive work on human relations, celibacy, sexuality and love, the book reads like a confessional on the scale of St Augustin and Rousseau. It deals with controversial experiments in brahmacharya.
There were more than a dozen women who came to be closely associated with Gandhi at one time or the other; that included Millie Polak, Nilla Cram Cook, Mirabehn, Sushila Nayyar and Manu Gandhi. This is his biography as well as the life-stories of all his associates. Not to be mixed are the chapters relating to Sarla Devi, whom he claimed to be his “spiritual wife” and the failed romance of Mirabehn and Prithvi Singh Azad. Also to be found in the Appendix is the ex
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Vishav Bharti
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, June 6
The British had banned Gandhi caps and black turbans inside jails. When Baba Kharak Singh, who was lodged in the Dera Ghazi Khan jail (in North West Frontier) was asked to remove his turban, he threw away all his clothes, saying: “I will not wear these till the government lifts the ban.”
The chill could have killed the man, who was in his mid-fifties. To cajole him, jail officials lifted the ban on black turban and top Congress leadership requested him to put on his clothes, but Baba Kharak Singh refused to do so. After five-and-a-half years on June 4, 1927, he walked out of the jail in ‘kachera’ (shorts).
Kharak Singh was a top Congress leader who after Lala Lajpat Rai’s fängelse became the president of the Punjab Provincial Congress Committee in 1922.
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About the Book
Rajmohan Gandhi's book on Mahatma Gandhi has created a controversy mainly because one of the chapters is devoted to Gandhiji's relations with Saraladevi Choudharani whom he called his spiritual wife. Girja Kumar gives a more vivid characterisation of this relationship in his book. This book is the first to give an authentic account of the Mahatma's relations with various other women associates and the repercussions these romantic liaisons produced on those close to him, including 'Ba' (Kasturba Gandhi).
About the Author
Born in 1925 at Dera Ghazi Khan (Pakistan), Girja Kumar fryst vatten a veteran research scholar. The man behind the Sapru House library, he has held many important positions including Chairman of the Delhi Library Board (198586) and President of the Indian Library Association (198385). He was Associate, Oriental Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC during 195455. He retired as chief librarian of the Jawaharlal Nehru University library