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The outstanding event of the forty-ninth session of the Congress held under the president-ship of Rajendra Prasad at Abdul Gaffar Nagar, Bombay, was Gandhi’s retirement from the Congress for having failed to persuade it....

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On October 28, 1934, the congress reiterated its confidence in Gandhi’s leadership, while reluctantly accepting his decision…

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Karamchand Gandhi (a man of principle) - Mohan's father - succeeded Uttamchand (grandfather of Mohandas Gandhi) as Diwan. Mohan's Mother, Putlibai, was deeply religious and had a strong personality.

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Realizing that revivification of the villages, which were perpetually exploited, was a necessity if India was to exist and a remedy for its progressive poverty, Gandhi took his abode in the Ashram at Wardha.....

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For him,” khadi was the sun of the village solar system and the various village-industries it planets…".“We should.” He argued, “Identify ourselves with the poor villagers, live as they live, help them to produce what we need and make full use of the local raw material, local talent and local tools…”

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Distressed at the penetration of the machines in the villages, Gandhi observed, “From time immemorial, the villages of India have been pounding their own paddy…..

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“Unpolished rice and hand-ground whole wheat-flour apart from being nutritious also provide employment in the rural areas….“We have suffered the village oilman to be driven to extinction and we eat adulterated oils… Gandhi persuaded the villagers to take to more rational ways of diet…...

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His plea was that mechanization is good where hands are too few… but an evil where there are more hands that are required for the work as is the case in India…..

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The remedy suggested by him was the -protection of the village-industries, the village-crafts and the workers behind them from the crushing competition of power-driven machinery…. Gandhi believed that “ If the village perishes, India will perish…”

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Persuading the villagers not to turn open healthy spaces into breeding grounds for disease, Gandhi suggested burying of the night soil as the most economic method of tits disposal; when mixed with refuse, it can be turned into golden manure…...

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Gandhi believed in the infinite capacity of the soul for self-control by artificial means will lead to moral bankruptcy…. He regarded woman not as an instrument of animal pleasure, but as the mother of man and a trustee of the virtue of her progeny….

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Non-violence which was at the root of all his activities was not confined only to India… Mussolini’s attack on Abyssinia disturbed Gandhi….

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He appealed against the wave of darkness that was about to sweep the whole world.” If the recognized leaders of mankind, who have control over the energies of destruction, ere wholly to renounce their use with full knowledge of the implications, permanent peace can be obtained…

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“Non-violence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive… it is my unshakable belief that India’s destiny is to deliver the message of non-violence to mankind…”.

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Being convinced that the real India dwelt in her villages, Gandhi tramped to Segaon-later called Sevagram- a decadent village five miles from Wardha on June 16, 1936 to attain self-realisation through the service of the village-folk in steadfast faith…..

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Visitors from far and near began to gravitate here…. Drawing inspiration from his new abode, he associated the villagers with the community life of the Ashram…

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Sevagram Ashram was but an experiment in truth and non-violence. Gandhi lived here with Kasturbai as a villager of his dream. The simple life was his chosen way.

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Here, Gandhi lived and worked beginning his day before dawn, never missing his prayers. The little hut remained the scene of his many activities from morning till night…. He spun for hours and carded his cotton…”The greatest of my activity is charkha...

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Sometimes he was engrossed in examining the details of the flattest model of the spinning wheel and making suggestions to the designer….

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People, high and low, sought refuge in the little mud hut where he dwelt…It also became the venue of the meetings of the Congress Working Committee.He did justice to all item, grave or gay, important or unimportant, for nothing was too trivial for him…

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He looked into every detail himself, … visited the ailing inmates who were treated according to his method of nature-cure… among the patients…. Was a leper- a profound Sanskrit scholar. “Who will look after him if I don’t?” thought Gandhi and gave daily massage to him.

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He determined the patient’s diet and made a scientific study of the leprosy germs to evaluate his progress. He never failed to greet the new-born calves in the Ashram…

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Lying with a mud-poultice on his abdomen was part of his permanent treatment for blood pressure prescribed by himself…. He knew the wonderful properties of mother earth. “That is why, instead of treading upon it, I have it on my head and on my abdomen,” he said.

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It was his infinite faith in God that gave him the patience of a job and his unfailing good humour…. The morning and the evening constitutionals were as much part of Gandhi’s regular routine as the prayers…

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Details about the kitchen or the crops were discussed with those in charge to them…Often, interviews of a serious nature were given and press statements dictated during the walks…

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In accordance with his desire to be in tune with the infinite, he slept under the open sky…To promote contact with the villagers, the first village session of the Congress, according to Gandhi’s conception, was held at Faizpur.

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Vast unsophisticated crowds thronged Tilaknagar- the bamboo village…All arrangements were befitting the village life…President Nehru dwelt upon the growing menace of Fascism in Europe

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Though Gandhi took no part in the Congress debates, opening the Khadi and Village Industries Exhibition, he said, it is not enough that one wears khadi if he surrounds himself with videshi-things foreign in everything else…