His humble clothing was in non-violent defiance of the British Rule–a message that he wore on himself for the rest of his life. “It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, an Inner Temple lawyer, now become a seditious fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.” In a moment of anger, he called Gandhi, a ‘half-naked seditious fakir’! Nearly 88 years ago, Winston Churchill was overwhelmed to see Mahatma Gandhi’s attire. “All the alterations I have made in my course of life have been affected by momentous occasions, and they have been made after such a deep deliberation that I have hardly had to regret them.”
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