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Gandhi,
Gandhi
, p. 149.
    27    
And when it comes
: The other two were the Reverend Walter Rubusana, who was elected to the Cape province provincial council, andJohn Tengo Jabavu, editor of a weekly newspaper printed in English and Xhosa in Cape Town, where Gandhi encountered him. See Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie,
From Cane Fields to Freedom: A Chronicle of Indian South African Life
(Cape Town, 2000), p. 118. Of course, the absence of other names in Gandhi’s writings of the period does not in itself demonstrate that he had no further encounters with African leaders. Recently, in an as-yet-unpublished memoir by a woman named Pauline Padlashuk, an account has come to light of a visit to Tolstoy Farm byPixley ka Isaka Seme, who, like Dube, was an early officeholder of what became the African National Congress. “Mr. Gandhi told Dr. Seme about his passive resistance movement,” this white witness wrote.
    28    
A Zulu aristocrat
: Shula Marks, “Ambiguities of Dependence: John L. Dube of Natal,”
Journal of South African Studies
1, no. 2 (1975), p. 163.
    29    “
my patron saint
”: Fredrickson,
Black Liberation
, p. 119.
    30    
president-general he was called
: Dube himself did not attend the founding session of the new Congress in Bloemfontein. He was elected president in absentia.
    31    “
This Mr. Dubey
”:
CWMG
, vol. 5, p. 55.
    32    “
They worked hard
”: Fredrickson,
Black Liberation
, p. 119.
    33    
We know that Gopal
:
Ilanga lase Natal
, Nov. 15, 1912. The entry in Kallenbach’s diary for that date, at the archive of the Sabarmati Ashram, doesn’t mention the visit to Inanda at all.
    34    “
To us at the Phoenix Settlement
”: “A Great Zulu Dead,”
Indian Opinion
, Feb. 15, 1946.
    35    “
the solidarity between
”: Jacob Zuma, in speech available online at www.info.gov.za/speeches/2000/000/0010161010a1002.htm .>.
    36    
The immediate provocation
: The term “poll tax” as it was used in South Africa at that time had nothing to do with elections. See Surendra Bhana, “Gandhi, Indians,and Africans in South Africa,” paper presented at the Kansas African Studies Center, Sept. 12, 2002.
    37    “
For the Indian community
”:
CWMG
, vol. 5, p. 366.
    38    
Gandhi had the rank
: Ibid., p. 368. Another biographer, D. G. Tendulkar, following the
Autobiography
, makes it twenty-four, including nineteen ex-indentured. Tendulkar,
Mahatma
, vol. 1, p. 76.
    39    
In the next few weeks
: This is the surmise of the leading South African scholar on this conflict, Jeff Guy, in his book
Maphumulo Uprising
, p. 101.
    40    “
I do not remember
”: Prabhudas Gandhi,
My Childhood with Gandhiji
, p. 42.
    41    
But it did say
: See Bhana, “Gandhi, Indians, and Africans in South Africa.”
    42    
In London, an exile
: Green,
Gandhi
, p. 160.
    43    “
Mr. Gandhi speaks with
”: Doke,
M. K. Gandhi: An Indian Patriot
, p. 111.
    44    “
It was no trifle
”: Ibid., p. 112.
    45    “
My heart was with theZulus
”: Gandhi,
Autobiography
, p. 279.
    46    
As late as 1943
: Nayar,
Mahatma Gandhi’s Last Imprisonment
, p. 264.
    47    “
These themes
”: Erikson,
Gandhi’s Truth
, p. 194.
    48    
In part, this may have
: Marks, “Ambiguities of Dependence,” p. 54.
    49    “
No, I purposely did not
”:
CWMG
, vol. 62, p. 199.
    50    “
Yours is a far bigger issue
”: Ibid., vol. 68, p. 273.
    51    “
I venture to trust
”: Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository, Government House 1457, Military Affairs, Bhambatha Rebellion Correspondence, Feb. 9, to Dec. 28, 1907. See also M. K. Gandhi to Gov. H. McCallum, Aug. 13, 1907. Thanks to Jeff Guy, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, who called this passage to my attention.
    52    
He had spoken of the need
: Marks, “Ambiguities of Dependence,” p. 54.
    53    “
decency of wearing clothes”:
Speech at the Natal Missionary Conference, at Durban Town Hall, July 4, 1911. Text in