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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.

CHAPTER 5: LEADING THE INDENTURED
     
    1    
The status of Indians
: Quoted in Millin,
General Smuts
, p. 230.
    2    
He wrote a long piece
:
CWMG
, vol. 12, pp. 132–35.
    3    “
Then I am not your wife
”: Ibid., p. 31.
    4    “
We congratulate our plucky
”: Ibid., p. 66.
    5    “
I have sketched out
”: Ibid., vol. 96, p. 121.
    6    “
resolving in my own mind
”: Swan,
Gandhi: The South African Experience
, p. 242.
    7    “
When this tax thus fell
”: Gandhi,
Satyagraha in South Africa
, p. 273.
    8    
The government was too
: Meer,
South African Gandhi
, p. 47.
    9    
On consecutive days
: Kallenbach diary in the archive of the Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad. Naidoo is a Telugu, not a Tamil, name, but Thambi Naidoo was chairman of theTamil Benefit Society in Johannesburg, where the term “Tamil” seems to have been used loosely to designate all those of South Indian origin who might also in that era have been called Madrasis.
    10    
That evening he and Gandhi
: Kallenbach diary notes, July 3–7, 1913, in the archive of the Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad.
    11    “
ringleader
”:
Natal Witness
, Oct. 18, 1913.
    12    
Gandhi had used the threat
:
CWMG
, vol. 12, pp. 214–15.
    13    “
But the mere presence
”: Ibid., p. 512.
    14    “
It may be difficult
”: Ibid., p. 214.
    15    
Natal’s attorney general
: Desai and Vahed,
Inside Indenture
, p. 363.
    16    “
A peculiar position
”:
Natal Witness
, Oct. 18, 1913.
    17    
As the message spread
: Desai and Vahed,
Inside Indenture
, p. 364.
    18    “
Any precipitate step
”:
African Chronicle
, Oct. 18, 1913.
    19    “
Indians do not fight
”:
CWMG
, vol. 12, p. 240.
    20    
Despite all these signals
: Desai and Vahed,
Inside Indenture
, p. 364.
    21    “
We do not believe
”:
CWMG
, vol. 12, p. 253.
    22    
All the