The Story of My Experiments with Truth Part 5, Chapter 29 Summary

The Rowlatt Bills and My Dilemma

  • Whoa, now a doctor talks Gandhi into drinking goat's milk.
  • Our hero says that while this meets the letter of his vow—which was against cow's and buffalo's milk—it violates the vow's spirit.
  • He says his desire to live and take up the Satyagraha fight proved stronger than his devotion to truth. Describing this, he's pretty distraught.
  • The Rowlatt Committee makes recommendations that Gandhi determines would be against the self-respect of the people to accept (he doesn't describe them).
  • So, they take up Satyagraha.