MOHANDAS KARAMSHAND ['MAHATMA'] GANDHI (1869-1948)

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MOHANDAS KARAMSHAND ['MAHATMA'] GANDHI (1869-1948)
One-page letter, in Devanagri script, text in ink, signed in pencil, from Ashram Sabarmati, 'Wednesday' [early March 1926], 8°, to Bhai Shankarprasad, reporting that he has completed a course of injections and is now in good health, that the doctors have advised him to go to a hill station, and concluding with an enquiry whether 'the children...are spinning the wheel as per their vow', with recipient's annotation on verso, with an English translation of the text.

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The spinning wheel in question refers to the mass movement started by Gandhi to spin cotton in Indian households; the object was to put an end to the use of imported textiles from Britain, encourage Indian industry and reduce unemployment.

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