INDIAN HOME RULE BY M. K. GANDHI FIFTH EDITION AS. 6 GANESH & Co., MADRAS Books by C. F. Andrews The Claim for Independence Within or without the British Empire =Price As. 8.= Non-Co-operation The Whys and Wherefores =Price As. 8.= Indians in South Africa Helots within the British Empire =Price As. 8.= The Drink and Opium Evil _Miss La Molte says_: "A nation that can subjugate 300,000,000 helpless Indian people, and then turn them into drug addicts, for the sake of revenue, is a nation, which commits a cold-blooded atrocity unparalleled by any atrocity committed in the rage and heat of war." =Price As. 4.= How India can be Free "India has no need to take the sword in order to be free: She has a much more powerful weapon ready to her hand. If once her people unitedly decide to be free they can be free." =Price As. 4.= Indian Independence: The immediate need To be in subjection to a band of foreign rulers, if Seeley's historical maxim is true, cannot but lead to national deterioration. This is why the need for independence is so immediate. This is why it cannot be postponed. The verdict of the most sober English Historians is this, that India, without a single hand being lifted to strike a single blow, can determine her own destiny. The sheer weight of numbers,--three hundred and twenty millions against a few thousands,--is so great, that if these numbers could once speak with one mind, their will must be carried out. =Price As. 8.= GANESH & Co., Publishers, Madras. INDIAN HOME RULE BY M. K. GANDHI Reprinted with a new foreword by the author FIFTH EDITION GANESH & Co., MADRAS 1922 MADRAS: THE MODERN PRINTING WORKS, MOUNT ROAD. NOTE The doctrine of violence is more widely believed in than is generally realised. The votaries of violence can be divided into two classes. Some, a small and dwindling class, believe in it and are prepared to act according to their faith. Others, a very large class always, and now, after bitter experiences of the failure of constitutional agitation, larger than ever, believe in violence, but that belief does not lead them to action. It disables them from work on any basis other than force. The belief in violence serves to dissuade them from all other kinds of work or sacrifice. In both cases the evil is great. There can be no reconstruction or hope for this land of ours, unless we eradicate the worship of force in all its forms, and establish work on a basis other than violence. A refutation of the doctrine of violence is, in the present situation of the affairs of our country, more necessary than ever. To this end, nothing better can be conceived than the publication and wide distribution of Mr. Gandhi's famous book.