What was gandhi imprisoned for

Returned the honours to the Government, commencement of Non-co-operation. Bardoli Taluka resolved against payment of land revenue and Civil-Disobedience. Charged of sedition for the authorship of three articles in Young India.

Twenty one days' fast for communal harmony commenced at Maulana Mohammed Ali's house, Delhi. The publication of 'Satyana Prayogo athava Atmakatha' commences in Navajivan. Congress Working Committee adopted the resolution of Civil Disobedience. Arrested and sent to Yeravda for indefinite period; Vallabhbhai fellow prisoner.

Letter to Ramsay Macdonald declaring his intentions to fast unto death against the Communal Award. Commneced publication of 'Harijan'. There is one way to treat prisoners, and that way doesn't change. During my first decade of imprisonment, we were up at 5. Once counted, we filed for our breakfast, and then filed to be counted again before being sent to work. Work stopped at 4. A bell is rung at half-past five in the morning to wake up the prisoners.

Everyone must then get up, roll up his bedding and wash. The door of the cell is opened at six when each prisoner must stand up with his arms crossed and his bedding rolled up beside him.

A sentry then calls the roll. By a similar rule, every prisoner is required to stand beside his bed, while he is being locked up [at night]. When the officials come to inspect the prisoners, they must take off their caps and salute him.

All the prisoners wore caps, and it was not difficult to take them off, for there was a rule that they must be taken off, and this was only proper. The order to line up was given by shouting the command fall in whenever an official came. The words fall in therefore became our daily diet. They meant that the prisoners should fall in line and stand to attention.

This happened four or five times a day. The prisoners are locked up at half-past five in the afternoon. They read or converse in the cell up to eight in the evening. At eight, everyone must go to bed, meaning that even if one cannot sleep, one must get into bed.

Talking among prisoners after eight constitutes a breach of Gaol Regulations. The Native prisoners do not observe this rule too strictly. The warders on night duty, therefore, try to silence them by knocking against the walls with their truncheons and shouting, Thula! Hard labour is hard, and made infinitely harder by the warder who stands over you and forces you to work beyond your endurance, beyond human endurance.

Gandhi, like us, had plenty of hard labour, and both his comrades and mine, survived to tell our tales. He describes a particular day in Volksrust prison. The warder was rather short of temper. He shouted at the prisoners all the time to keep on working. The more he shouted, the more nervous the Indians became. I even saw some of them in tears. One, I noticed, had a swollen foot. I went on urging everyone to ignore the warder and carry on as best he could. I too, got exhausted.

There were large blisters on my palms and the lymph was oozing out of them. I was praying to God all the time to save my honour so that I might not break down.

The warder started rebuking me. He did so because I was resting. Just then I observed Mr. Jhinabhai Desai fainting away. I paused a little, not being allowed to leave the place of work. The warder went to the spot. I found that I too must go and I ran. They splashed water on the fainted Jhinabhai and revived him. Jhinabhai was taken to his cell by cab. That hot day repeated itself on Robben Island in the early sixties. We, like Gandhi's Indians, had been working at a brisk pace for three hours one day, when fatigue set in and some of us stopped to stretch our bodies.

The warder was on to us, swearing and shouting. Then he turned to Steven Tefu, old enough to be his grandfather, very erudite, highly educated, and shouted at him, "Get on boy! Tefu drew together his dignity and reprimanded the warder in high Dutch, thoroughly confusing him.

The outcome for Tefu was better than that for Jhinabhai. On the first day, we had to dig up the soil in a field near the main road for purposes of cultivation. They quarried stones and carried them on their heads. We worked on the lime quarries, and the sun shining on the whiteness blinded our eyes.

There were times when Gandhi agonised and wondered whether he had done the right thing by exposing his compatriots to the pain and indignity, but his firm conviction came to his rescue.

Seeing that our sole duty was to break free from our fetters by enduring every hardship rather than remaining bound for life, I felt light in the heart and tried to instill courage in the others. During his imprisonment in Pretoria, all his fellow prisoners were Africans Natives as they were then referred to, even by ourselves , and they, seeing him so different from them, were curious to know what he was doing in prison.

Culture Century. Gandhi arrested Eleventh-hour telegram President of Congress also sent to prison Monday 4 January guardian.

Gandhi was arrested in Bombay early this morning, along with the President of Congress. He had planned to make a train journey, and the police proposed to arrest him at a quiet wayside station some distance from Bombay, but Mr.

Gandhi suddenly altered his arrangements, and the police plans were consequently upset, causing them to arrest him in Bombay. Gandhi's last statement in a message which confirms all he said before. When you reach out to them, you will need the page title, URL, and the date you accessed the resource. If a media asset is downloadable, a download button appears in the corner of the media viewer.

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