ABSTRACT
T h o s e men and women who, under Mahatma Gandhi’s leadership, have joyfully gone to prison without offering any active resistance have surely won the right by their suffering and sacrifice to speak on behalf of their fellow countrymen and to rebut the charge which Miss Mayo and others have brought against them of being a morally decadent and sexually degraded race. Their own supreme devotion to their country has also given them the responsibility of interpreting the higher longings of all the countless, inarticulate folk in the seven hundred thousand villages of India. These poor people cannot speak for themselves, and are there fore unable to contradict the accusations that have been levelled against their moral character and their religion by hostile and sensational writers.
