In India, often within prison walls, Jawaharlal was also reviewing his political and ideological position in the context of Gandhi’s withdrawal of the Civil Disobedience Movement, his fasts and his focus on the removal of untouchability. He was seriously upset by Gandhi’s decision to halt the Civil Disobedience Movement. In his autobiography, he was to record the sense of loss and vacuum that overwhelmed him when he got the news of the withdrawal. He was frightened by Gandhi’s statement that Congressmen should turn to social work—to the spread of khadi, to hand-spinning and hand-weaving. He
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