Gandhi: The Calcutta connection

February 04, 2021 11:21

Mahatma Gandhi signing autographs at Juhu

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi reached Calcutta by the S.S. Pangola on July 4, 1896, after leaving Durban on May 6. He did not stay in Calcutta' After visiting Rajkot, Bombay and Madras, he returned to Calcutta via Nagpur on October 31.

He stayed at the Great Eastern Hotel from October 31 to November 14... Gandhi had no friends in Calcutta. He wanted to meet Sir Surendranath Banerjee to get him interested in South African affairs. He met Banerjee at the Indian Association Hall, and he told Gandhi, "I am afraid people will not take interest in your work. As you know, our difficulties here are by no means few. But you must try...' The editors of Amrita Bazar Patrika and Bangabasi '" leading Bengali newspapers '" whom Gandhi met did not take interest in the South African problems. But the Calcutta-based English dailies, The Statesman and The Englishman, showed interest and published his interviews."

Read the column by PT Nair here.

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