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The Law and The Lawyers

Written by: M.K. Gandhi

Compiled and Edited by: S.B. Kher


First Edition: October 1962


Printed & Published by:

Navajivan Publishing House,

Ahemadabad 380014, Gujarat, India.



» Introduction
» Acknowledgement
» Preface to the Forth Edition
» To The Reader

SECTION I : GANDHIJI AS A LAW STUDENT

» Preparation for England
» Preparation for the bar
» 'Called' - But then?

SECTION II : GANDHIJI AS A LAWYER

» How I began life
» The First Case
» The First Shock
» Preparation for South Africa
» Arrival in Natal
» Some Experiences
» On the way to Pretoria
» First day in Pretoria
» Preparation for the case
» Man proposes, God disposes
» Settled in Natal
» Colour Bar
» Settled in Bombay?
» Some reminiscences of the bar
» Clients turned co-workers
» How a client was saved

SECTION III : THE TRIALS OF GANDHIJI

» Before the court in 1907
» Before the court in 1908
» Before the court in 1913
» Was it contempt of court?
» Contempt of court
» The Great Trial

SECTION IV : LAWYERS AND SATYAGRAHA

» Courts and Schools
» Lawyers and Non-co-operation
» The hallucination of law courts
» Cobblers v. Lawyers
» How many lawyers and students help
» Practising Lawyers
» A Protest
» Practising Lawyers
» About Lawyers
» The Satyagrahi Lawyers
» Mysore Lawyers
» Shri Dasappa's Case
» Babu Kalinath Roy
» Lala Radha Krishna's Case
» The Lahore Judgment
» Jagannath's Case
» Another Scandal
» Victims, Not guilty
» Dr. Satyapal's Case
» Lala Labhu Ram
» Gujaratimal's Case
» Labh Singh, M.A.L.L.B. (CANTAB), BAR-AT-LAW
» More Punjab Tragedies
» How not to do it?
» Fining the labourers
» The Amritsar Appeals
» The Punjab Sentences
» A Hard Case
» Lawyers' Duty

SECTION V : MISCELLANEOUS

» How to spiritualize the profession
» Birds of a feather (?)
» A Judge's indictment
» An Unjudicial Dictum
» Untruth in law courts
» Hindu Law and Mysore
» The Federal Court
» The Federal Court
» The place of the lawyers in a non-violent society
» An advocates dilemma
» 5,000 miles away
» Justice from six thousand miles
» Navakal prosecution
» Aundh Constitution
» Civil v. Criminal
» Gandhiji's famous customs declaration
» Veiled Martial Law

APPENDICES

» Appendix I
» Appendix II
» Appendix III
» Appendix IV
» Appendix V
» Appendix VI
» Appendix VII
» Appendix VIII
» Glossary