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Visited by the Hindu political leader Lala Lajpat Rai. . . .(Gandhi often speaks of him in his articles with esteem and affection.) He was the first man in India to be locked up for civil disobedience, and he remained in prison for two years, from 1921 to 1923. … He has a much more precise mind than most Hindus, and has noted a series of chronological errors in my book; he points them out to me, for which I am most grateful. The main one is that Gandhi did not wait for Tilak’s death before he resolutely entered the political arena; six months before he had already founded his party, and it was already beginning to relegate Tilak’s into the second place. Lajpat Rai, who was Tilak’s friend, had passed to Gandhi’s side when he (Rai) was president of the All-India Congress in 1920, at which both Gandhi and Tilak spoke; Tilak held this desertion against him.

Excerpted from”page number 33 – 33, of Romain Rolland and Gandhi Correspondence.”