The Story of My Experiments with Truth Part 2, Chapter 18 Summary

Colour Bar

  • Gandhi applies for admission to the Supreme Court as a lawyer, but he is opposed by the Law Society on the grounds that he's a colored person.
  • He meets with the opposition's lawyer, who requests proof of his background. He objects but provides the document and is admitted.
  • After Gandhi takes the oath, the Chief Justice tells him to take off his turban. He complies and later tells his friends, "When at Rome, do as the Romans do."
  • He also says the insistence on truth requires seeing a thing from a different standpoint in different circumstances.