Gandhi Before India (84 page)

9. Kasturba Gandhi and children, c. 1899. The infant in her arms is Ramdas, the one on the stool Manilal, the one to the right Harilal. The eldest of the boys in the picture, on the left, is Gandhi's sister’s son Gokuldas. The Gandhis’ youngest son, Devadas, was born the following year.

10. A front page of Indian Opinion, the journal Gandhi founded in 1903. Note the map on the masthead, linking the motherland to the diaspora. The petition that this issue reproduces, although sent in the name of A. M. Cachalia, was almost certainly written by Gandhi.

11. Gandhi's closest adviser: the Jewish radical Henry Polak.

12. Gandhi's closest adviser: the Gujarati patriot Pranjivan Mehta.

13. Gandhi’s most devoted assistant: his secretary Sonja Schlesin.

14. Gandhi’s most devoted assistant: Hermann Kallenbach.

15. The great European who loomed large in Gandhi’s life in South Africa: his principal adversary, the Boer general Jan Christian Smuts.

16. Another great European who loomed large in Gandhi’s life in South Africa: Leo Tolstoy.

17. Gandhi, taken in 1909. This was presented by Hermann Kallenbach to Thambi Naidoo, with the inscription (clearly visible): ‘If we are true to him we will be true to ourselves.’

18. Gandhi’s staunchest supporter: the Johannesburg merchant A. M. Cachalia.

19. Gandhi’s staunchest supporter: the English vegetarian Albert West.

20. Gandhi’s staunchest supporter: the Tamil radical Thambi Naidoo.

21. Gandhi’s staunchest supporter: Durban merchant Parsee Rustomjee.