Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India by Joseph Lelyveld

p. 52.
    16    “
spent bullet
”: Ibid., p. 309; Nirmal Kumar Bose,
My Days with Gandhi
, p. 208; see also M. K. Gandhi,
Delhi Diary
, p. 147.
    17    “
It is just possible
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 2, p. 85.
    18    “
He realized that if his vision
”:
CWMG
, vol. 89, p. 62.
    19    “
I do not like much
”: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 2, p. 329.
    20    “
We have as much claim
”: Ibid., p. 363.
    21    “
I am quite willing
”: Ibid., p. 183.
    22    “
We don’t need your sermons
”: Ibid., p. 367.
    23    “
Can’t you understand
”: Ibid., p. 365.
    24    
When the BBC asked
: Nirmal Kumar Bose,
My Days with Gandhi
, p. 224.
    25    “
I’ve run dry
”: Tendulkar, vol. 8,
Mahatma
, p. 80.
    26    “
What if this is just
”:
CWMG
, vol. 89, p. 55.
    27    “
One might almost say
”: Ibid., p. 49.
    28    “
All this is due
”: Gopalkrishna Gandhi,
A Frank Friendship
, p. 501.
    29    “
In the Punjab
”: Ibid., p. 517.
    30    “
What is all this?
”: Narayan Desai,
My Life Is My Message
, vol. 4,
Svarpan
, pp. 422–23.
    31    “
The Calcutta bubble
”:
CWMG
, vol. 89, p. 131.
    32    “
fiery weapon
”: Ibid., p. 134.
    33    
The day after the attack
: Dalton,
Mahatma Gandhi
, p. 154.
    34    “
When the heart is hard
”: Narayan Desai,
My Life Is My Message
, vol. 4,
Svarpan
, p. 434.
    35    
His old comrade
: Dalton,
Mahatma Gandhi
, p. 158.
    36    “
This sudden upheaval
”:
CWMG
, vol. 89, p. 49.
    37    
wonderfully dry description
: Bourke-White,
Halfway to Freedom
, pp. 81–82.
    38    
When he had to leave
: Ibid., p. 90.
    39    
But rowdy Hindu hecklers
:
CWMG
, vol. 89, p. 195.
    40    “
Anger is short madness
”: Ibid., p. 167.
    41    “
Why do [the authorities] tolerate
”: Ibid., p. 184.
    42    “
They are all mine
”: Ibid., p. 480.
    43    “
These days, who listens to me?
”: Ibid., p. 237.
    44    “
Ever since I came to India
”: Ibid., p. 275. See also p. 524.
    45    “
What sin must I
”: Ibid., p. 525.
    46    “
On the surface things
”: Ibid., p. 483.
    47    “
Misdeeds of the Hindus
”: Ibid., vol. 90, p. 228.
    48    
No single catastrophe
: Some say it was his fifteenth or sixteenth fast. Narayan Desai makes it thirty. Narayan Desai,
My Life Is My Message
, vol. 4,
Svarpan
, pp. 472–73.
    49    
Mountbatten, now the governor-general
: Rajmohan Gandhi,
Gandhi
, p. 612; Suhrawardy,
Memoirs
, p. 34; Ziegler,
Mountbatten
, p. 462;
CWMG
, vol. 96, p. 568.
    50    “
For some time my helplessness
”: Manubehn Gandhi,
Last Glimpses of Bapu
, p. 108.
    51    “
Gandhiji is not prepared
”: Azad,
India Wins Freedom
, p. 236.
    52    “
All his life he had stood
”: M. K. Gandhi,
Delhi Diary
, p. 336.
    53    
By his assassin’s own testimony
: Malgonkar,
Men Who Killed Gandhi
, p. 344; Tushar A. Gandhi, “
Let’s Kill Gandhi!
” p. 58.
    54    
Patel’s absence from Delhi
: The home minister left Delhi to travel to Gandhi’s native Kathiawad region to bring the holdout princely states there into the Indian Union, a mission in which Gandhi had a personal interest. But he was also stung by the decision of the cabinet, under the pressure of Gandhi’s fast, to release the reserves he had only just frozen. Before leaving Delhi, he wrote to Gandhi asking that he be allowed to resign. Rajmohan Gandhi,
Patel
, pp. 462–63.
    55    
Of the unfreezing of the assets
: Malgonkar,
Men Who Killed Gandhi
, p. 341, reproduction of paragraph 126 of Godse’s statement.
    56    
A few days earlier
: Pyarelal,
Mahatma Gandhi: Last Phase
, vol. 2, p. 711.
    57    “
Listen! Listen!
”: Tendulkar,
Mahatma
, vol. 8, p. 273.
    58    “
God will keep me alive
”: Manubehn Gandhi,
Last Glimpses of Bapu
, p. 224.
    59    “
The rulers of the country
”: Ibid., p. 225.
    60    “
If somebody fired
”: Ibid., pp.