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BAHUROOPEE
GANDHI
Written By

Anu Bandopadhyaya

Forwarded By

Jawaharlal Nehru

Forward
This book is for children. But I am sure that many grown-ups will read it with pleasure and profit.
Already Gandhiji has become a legend. Those who have not seen him, especially the children of today, must think of him as a very unusual person, a superman who performed great deeds. It is desirable, therefore, for the common aspects of his life to be placed before them, as is done by this book.
It is extraordinary how in many things he took interest and when he took interest, he did so thoroughly. It was not superficial interest. It was perhaps his thoroughness in dealing with what are considered to be the small things of life which emphasized his humanism. That was the basis of his character.
I am glad that this book has been written telling us of how Gandhiji functioned in a variety of ways, quite a part from politics and the public scene . It will perhaps give us a greater insight into him.
Jawaharlal Nehru
New Delhi, 10th March, 1964.

Introduction
The manuscript of this book has been lying with me since1949. I read D. G. Tendulkar's manuscript of the Mahatma in 1948, just after I had left the work in Kasturba training camp of Bengal. I worked in a village. The villagers around me and the girl trainees, I noticed, knew very little about Gandhiji. They observed Gandhi
Jayanti, daily spun and prayed. Some had taken part in national movements and courted jail, but they did not know what Gandhiji's real contribution was. May be I was wrong, but that is what I felt.
I still feel the same about many persons I come in contact with every day, some of whom are educated, all of whom abhor manual labour. I myself do not believe in the dignity of labour, but I know the drudgery of body labour. And that's why I every day try to share some manual labour with servants, lest I develop the feeling that just by paying a few chips I can win a right

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