1 “No man or woman living”: Gandhi to Kallenbach, June 16, 1912, quoted by Hunt and Bhana, “Spiritual Rope-Walkers.”
2 “a grim fight against”: CWMG, 2nd ed., vol. 58, pp. 118–19.
3 For five of those years: Kasturba moved to Tolstoy Farm with two sons in the latter half of 1910 and stayed till September 1912, when she moved back to Phoenix, according to Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Gandhi’s Prisoner? pp. 96, 104.
4 Gandhi insists: Gandhi, Autobiography, p. 270.
5 Colonial Natal was a place: Natal Mercury, June 15, 1903.
6 “no reason why we should”: Huttenback, Gandhi in South Africa, p. 244. Emphasis mine.
7 Finally, in 1908: Ibid., p. 235.
8 “I use all the money”: CWMG, vol. 6, p. 433.
9 “So I kept pouring out”: Gandhi, Autobiography, pp. 252–53.
10 “One day news came”: Prabhudas Gandhi, My Childhood with Gandhiji, pp. 44–45, 58.
11 “I could stay there only”: Gandhi, Autobiography, p. 270.
12 The two centers: Anand, Mahatma Gandhi and the Railways, p. 13.
13 Physically strong and quick-tempered: Meer, South African Gandhi, p. 1202.
14 According to Prema Naidoo: Interview with Prema Naidoo, Johannesburg, Nov. 2007.
15 “If Thambi Naidoo”: Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa, p. 148.
16 “Mine would be considered”: Gandhi, Autobiography, p. 274.
17 Gandhi’s house still stands: Itzkin, Gandhi’s Johannesburg, p. 61.
18 “His voice was soft”: Interview with Millie Polak, 1954, from the BBC archive, broadcast on May 7, 2004.
19 When Harilal was married: Dalal, Harilal Gandhi, p. 10.
20 In a will drafted in 1909: CWMG, vol. 96, p. 9.
21 “He feels that I have”: Dalal, Harilal Gandhi, p. 30.
22 “almost in the same bed”: Harijan, May 29, 1937. Quoted in an article by Mahadev Desai on Kallenbach’s visit to India.
23 Gandhi early on made a point: CWMG, vol. 96, p. 9.
24 One respected Gandhi scholar: “[James D.] Hunt asserts that their relationship was clearly homoerotic while not homosexual.” As related by Weber, Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor, p. 74.
25 Kallenbach, who was raised: Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa, p. 301.
26 He’d thus been in South Africa: Chapman, Sandow the Magnificent, pp. 153–54.
27 “Your portrait”: CWMG, vol. 96, pp. 28–29.
28 The most plausible guesses: See Joseph S. Alter, Gandhi’s Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism (Philadelphia, 2000), p. 36: “Moreover, Gandhi’s focused attention on the problems associated with constipation, and his regular use of enemas, can be explained, at least in part, by the need he felt to keep his body immaculately clean.”
29 In the agreement dated: CWMG, vol. 96, pp. 62–63.
30 “For the last two years”: Sarid and Bartolf, Hermann Kallenbach, p. 16.
31 Later it is Kallenbach: Gandhi, Autobiography, p. 294.
32 “I see death in chocolates”: CWMG, vol. 96, p. 71.
33 He sends Kallenbach: Ibid., p. 129.
34 a Dutch word: Jean Branford, A Dictionary of South African English (Cape Town, 1980), p. 147.
35 “Life is very short”: CWMG, vol. 9, p. 426, citing the original G. K. Chesterton article which appeared in The Illustrated London News, Oct. 2, 1909. See also Payne, Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi, p. 213.
36 “The English have not taken India”: M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, pp. 39, 114.
37 “Those in whose name we speak”: Ibid., p. 70.
38 “The primary object”: CWMG, 2nd ed., vol. 11, p. 428.
39 “I should like to slip out”: Ibid., p. 428.
40 “They are more useful”: M. K. Gandhi, “To the Colonial Born Indian,” Indian Opinion, July 15, 1911.
41 “That is my predominant occupation”: CWMG, 2nd ed., vol. 12, p. 49.
42 “makes us eat more”: Ibid., vol. 11, p. 169.
43 Now, when he eases up: Ibid., vol. 96, p. 96, where Gandhi informs Kallenbach of the dietary switch. For his earlier insistence on a saltless regime, which he said “purifies the blood to a high degree,” see vol. 11, pp. 130, 150, 507–8.
44 In Gandhi’s mind: Ibid., vol. 11, p. 190.
45 Upper House is wounded: Ibid., vol. 96, p. 220.
46 “Though I love”: Ibid., p. 166.
47 “a man of strong feelings”: Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa, p. 171, cited in Weber, Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor, p. 71.
48 “morbid sensitiveness”: CWMG, vol. 96, pp. 118, 183.
49 The timing of Gandhi’s: Gandhi settled in Johannesburg following his application to the Johannesburg bar on February 16, 1903. Meer, South African Gandhi, p. 37.
50 “whose eyes were always”: Gandhi, Autobiography, p. 222.
51 “In these conversations”: Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa, p. 269.
52 “I shall be there”: CWMG, vol. 11, p. 161.
53 His “inner voice”: As quoted, for instance, in Nayar, Mahatma Gandhi’s Last Imprisonment, p. 187.
54 Threatening renewed resistance: CWMG, vol. 11, p. 229.
55 Hundreds of other resisters: Huttenback, Gandhi in South Africa, pp. 264–65.
56 “a substitute for slavery”: Indian Opinion, March 10, 1908, included in Meer, South African Gandhi, p. 964.
57 “To a starving man”: Indian Opinion, Sept. 17, 1903, included in Meer, South African Gandhi, p. 969.
58 Indian Opinion carried: Indian Opinion, Sept. 16, 1911.
59 “In spite of your remarks”: CWMG, vol. 10, p. 465. See also Swan, Gandhi: The South African Experience, p. 211.
60 The most Gandhi had been hoping: CWMG, vol. 11, p. 130.
61 “If I felt like being free”: Ibid., vol. 96, p. 98.
62 A week later he wrote: Ibid., p. 99.
63 For nearly a year: African Chronicle, May 19, 1909, and March 25, 1911. Available on microfilm at the British Library.
64 “an absolute Hindu”: African Chronicle, June 15 and 8, 1912.
65 Just ten months later: African Chronicle, April 16, 1913.
66 “Mr. Gandhi may have been”: African Chronicle, June 10 and Jan. 10, 1914.
67 Though they’d agreed that: Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi, p. 158.
68 Some days earlier: African Chronicle, Nov. 16, 1912.
69 Fifteen years after the fact: Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa, pp. 270, 242–43.
70 “Are we not to blame”: CWMG, vol. 12, p. 207.
71 “You must return”: Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa, p. 268.