Lot 130
Gandhi, Mahatma (editor)
Young India
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
A Weekly Journal. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press, 1919-30. A run of original weekly numbers, comprising: New Series, Vol. I. No. 45, Vol. III No. 40, Vol. VI Nos. 38, 45, 46 and 47, Vol X No. 30, and Vol. XII No. 7, various extents. Together with: Young India Congress Supplement, December 1921 (26 pp. in total, comprising 4 daily numbers, nos. 1-3 each 4 pp., no. 4, 2 pp., with 12 pp. of additional material including draft resolutions of the 36th Indian National Congress); Young India Vol. XII No. 27, 3rd July 1930 (edited by Jairamdas Daulatram following Gandhi's imprisonment); and the Young India numbers for 24th July 1930 (3 leaves of lithographed manuscript printed on rectos only in purple ink) and 14th August and 18th September 1930 (each comprising 2 leaves of mimeographed typescript, rectos only, the September number with closed tear to second leaf). All items disbound but remaining intact (in quires or as single leaves tipped to a guard along inner-margin), uniform browning
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA
Footnote
Volume III No. 40 (6th October 1921) contains the manifesto of the Non-Cooperation Movement, issued in response to the trial of the Ali brothers, which declares: ‘We, the undersigned, state it as our opinion, that it is contrary to national dignity for any Indian to serve as a civilian, and more especially as a soldier, under a system of Government, which has brought about India's economic, moral and political degradation'. Gandhi was arrested by the British in May 1930 for violating the Salt Law. The three issues from July to September 1930 are printed via lithography or mimeography rather than letterpress owing to the confiscation of printing equipment by the British authorities, as discussed in the July number, which also contains a dispatch on Gandhi's activities in prison: ‘This week Gandhiji writes in his general letter that he is spinning for four hours a day, and adds: ‘I feel a certain amount of physical exhaustion when working at the wheel … But to-day this is my penance, hence I cling to it’'.