Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India (78 page)

Usman, Mohammad

Vahed, Goolam,
5.1
,
5.2

Vaikom, Shiva temple at: description of,
7.1
; Gandhi’s audience with Brahmans at,
7.2
,
7.3
; priestly caste at,
7.4
,
7.5
,
9.1
; untouchables barred from,
7.6
,
7.7
,
7.8
,
10.1

Vaikom Satyagraha (1924–25),
7.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
; absence of Pulaya agitation in,
7.2
; fasting in,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
9.1
,
9.2
; first march in,
7.6
; Gandhi’s arrival at,
7.7
; Gandhi’s first meeting with Narayan Guru and,
7.8
; Gandhi’s restraints on tactics in,
7.9
,
7.10
,
7.11
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
9.3
; Gandhi’s visit to Travancore and,
7.12
,
8.4
; impetus for,
7.13
; monument to,
7.14
,
7.15
; non-Hindus barred from participation in,
7.16
,
7.17
,
7.18
; settlement in,
7.19
,
10.2
; violent attacks on satyagrahis in,
7.20

Vaikom Taluk Toddy Tappers Union

varnashrama dharma (rules of caste),
2.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
10.1

vegetarianism,
1.1
,
4.1

Victoria, queen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, empress of India,
1.1
,
5.1

Vijayanath, Babu,
7.1
,
7.2

village self-sufficiency: contemporary microfinance schemes and,
10.1
,
12.1
.
See also
All India Village Industries Association

Vivekananda, Swami

Volksrust: Gandhi’s arrest at (1908),
3.1
,
5.1
,
12.1
; Gandhi’s arrest at (1913),
5.2
,
12.2
; satyagrahis’ illegal border crossings at,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6

Wahab, Abdue

“Walk Alone
”

Wardha,
10.1
; as de facto nationalist capital of India,
10.2
; foreign delegations’ visits to,
10.3
; Gandhi’s anti-untouchability tour ended in,
9.1
; Gandhi’s relocation to,
9.2
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
12.1
(
see also
Sevagram village and ashram); suicides among indebted cotton farmers of,
10.6

Washington, Booker T.,
3.1
,
3.2

Wavell, Lord (viceroy),
10.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
11.4

weaving,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
11.1
,
12.1

Weizmann, Chaim

West, Albert

West Bengal,
11.1
,
12.1

What Is to Be Done?
(Tolstoy),
2.1
,
12.1

women: Gandhi’s call for enhanced role for,
8.1
,
9.1
; in satyagraha,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
; Self Employed Women’s Association and,
12.1
; as victims of communal violence,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3
,
12.2

Woodgate, Major General Edward

Working Committee (Congress Party),
10.1
,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

World Bank

World War I,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
10.1
,
12.1
; Gandhi’s recruitment of Indian troops for,
6.3
,
10.2
,
12.2

World War II,
3.1
,
8.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
12.1
; Gandhi’s moral pronouncements on circumstances leading to,
10.3
; Indian independence and,
10.4
,
11.1
; Indian support of British war effort in,
11.2
; India’s declaration of war in,
10.5
,
11.3
; “Quit India!” campaign and,
11.4

yajna
(self-sacrifice), Manu’s presence and,
11.1
,
11.2
,
11.3

Yeravda prison (near Poona),
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1
; “fast unto death” campaign in,
9.3
,
12.1
,
12.2

YMCA (Johannesburg), debate at (1908),
3.1
,
3.2

Young India
(Gandhi’s weekly newspaper),
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
8.1
,
9.1
,
12.1

Yunus, Muhammad

zamindars (Indian landlords)

Zionism,
4.1
,
10.1

Zululand,
1.1
,
3.1

Zulus,
12.1
; anti-Indian “pogrom” of (1949),
3.1
; Gandhi’s encounters with,
3.2
; uprising of (1906),
3.3
,
6.1
,
12.2
(
see also
Bhambatha Rebellion); whites and Indians outnumbered by,
3.4
.
See also
Dube, John Langalibalele

Joseph Lelyveld’s interest in Gandhi dates back to tours in India and South Africa as a foreign correspondent for
The New York Times
, where he worked for nearly four decades, ending up as executive editor from 1994 to 2001. His book on apartheid,
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. He is also the author of
Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop
. He lives in New York.

Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop
Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White