Reflections of an Extraordinary Era

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Tara Bhattacharjee Gandhi. Reflections of an Extraordinary Era

Contents

A Son’s Foreword

Harijan Ashram

Sewagram

Aga Khan Palace

Shimla

Valmiki Ashram

Birla House, 1947–48

Harilal Kaka, Manilal Kaka, Ramdas Kaka

Essays by Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee

Women as Victims in Conflict Areas and as Promoters of Peace

Charkha The Hand Spinning Wheel

A Story about Dolls

The Meaning of Swaraj

Family Trees of Mahatma Gandhi

Glossary

Picture Section

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Dedicated to Amma and Appa

Dedication

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At the core of my mother’s spirituality and humanity are two key figures: her mother and her husband; in other words, my grandmother and my father. You will hear more about my grandmother in the memoirs that follow, and hence I will limit myself to a few paragraphs on my father whose own background is symbolic of and intertwined with the phenomenal evolution of Indian society.

Jyoti Prasad (or ‘Baba’ as I called him) was born in 1922 when the British empire, financially burdened by years of imperialist expansion and the debilitating effects of World War I, began to steadily unwind. He was born in the village of Bhatpara, District 24 Parganas North, outside Calcutta in today’s West Bengal. The address, still current today, is yet another remnant of the infrastructure left to India by the British, in this case of an organized postal system and its associated administrative order.

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