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Mohandas Gandhi

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Mohandas Gandhi

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Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS in Gujarati, on both sides of a 3.5 x 5.5 postcard, no date, but postmarked November 14, 1930. Letter to his friend Dr. Behram Navroji Khambatta. In full (translated): “I have received your letter. I have operated the ‘Jeevan Rentyo,’ and it works well. Gadiv is inspecting it now. Kaka is also quite comfortable using Jeevan Rentyo, but not so Aadiv. I am impressed by its simplicity and economy. But I still can’t decide why can’t you make use of milk in Bombay? Nothing needs to be done. Perhaps curd would be better than milk, if you don’t care about the taste.” Postmarks affecting a few letters of text, otherwise fine condition. As referenced in this text, India was in the midst of a milk shortage at the time, one of many things in Indian society that troubled the Mahatma. Six months earlier, police arrested Gandhi before a planned raid on the Dharasana Salt Works as part of a civil disobedience movement in support of Indian independence. Still in prison at the time of this letter, Gandhi could not attend the Round Table Conference in London—the first of a series organized by the British government to discuss constitutional reforms in India. Regardless, the non-violent methods employed by Gandhi continued to have a significant effect on British authorities concerning Indian independence and caused large numbers of Indians to actively join the fight. Even from prison, Gandhi had become the greatest engine in motivating the independence movement.