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This Was Bapu book

Anecdotes of Gandhi

[Abridged from the book 'This Was Bapu']


Compiled by: R.K. Prabhu

First Edition: July 1954


Printed & Published by:

Navajivan Publishing House

Ahemadabad 380014, Gujarat, India.



» Acknowledgement
» Foreword
» A Dream of Death
» The Salt of Life
» A Birthday Message
» Is the World getting better?
» Mahatma and The Capitalist
» In Buckingham Palace
» The Power of the prayer
» Violence preferred to Cowardice
» "Price of freedom is Death"
» "Bande Mataram"
» Like the True Yogi
» Postman before Premier
» Origin of 'Gandhi Cap'
» Harijan Seva
» Iqbal's Tribute
» Power of Silence
» A Humiliating Spectacle
» "Nothing Too Small For Him"
» Prayers Against Atom Bombs
» "More Beautiful Than All Ornaments"
» The Gandhi 'Talisman'
» A Rebuke to Students
» 'Liars All'
» Gandhi and Thoreau
» An Object-lesson in Ahimsa
» An invitation to commit Harakiri
» Who are the 'Unclean'?
» Gandhiji and The Communists
» "Non-violent" Honey
» Origin of his Lion Cloth
» "They deserve the crown"
» Duel with a Doctor
» Bapu The Miser
» A Namashrudra's Faith
» A Pataudi Story
» He wouldn't copy
» The Troublesome Tooth
» A British Nurse's Taunt
» Bapu Apologizes
» With The Lepers
» The fallen sisters
» "I am still a student"
» A Tragedy
» Experiments with uncooked food
» Origin of Mass Prayers
» Mahatma Gandhi's Courtesy
» In the Lion's Den
» "The Prince of Beggars"
» An Early Example of Bapu's Ahimsa
» An Ideal Prisoner
» The "Half-Naked", "Seditious Fakir"
» All over beef tea and salt
» Gandhi-Romain Rolland Meeting
» "Stabling Truth"
» Lessons in Journalistic Ethics
» Some Typical Letters of Gandhiji
» Gandhiji's Favourite Hymns