Mahatma Gandhi: Quit India Speech

Glossary

• Ali Brothers Mohammad and Shaukat Ali, who were allied with the Indian National Congress during the days of the Khilafat movement
• brahmachari a figurative way to describe a man who does not expend vital energies on passing fancies
• Justice Ranade Mahadev Govind Ranade; a founder of the Indian National Congress
• Khilafat movement efforts by Muslims in India to secure favorable treatment from the British government (1919–1924)
• Maulana Bari Abdul Bari, a leader of the Khilafat movement
• Maulana Jawaharlal Jawaharlal Nehru, later India's first prime minister; as a gesture of ecumenism, Gandhi uses Maulana, a title accorded Muslim leaders (literally, “our lord,” “our master” in Arabic), to describe his fellow Hindu.
• Maulana Saheb Abdul Kalam Azad; a Muslim leader and friend of Gandhi's who was much respected in tribal India
• Qaid-e-Azam Jinnah Muhammed Ali Jinnah; the title means “great leader” in Urdu
• Rajaji Gandhi's name (meaning “keeper of my conscience”) for his close associate Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari
• Sir Frederick Puckle director-general of the Central Board of Information of British India
• [the] Viceroy Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquis of Linlithgow