Harijan Poona - Saturday November 26 1938

And so on over one hundred and twenty-five miles of the track and finally the market square of the Peshawar Town at the end of the day. [...] But we have the testimony both of Davies and the author of that delightful book " The Khyber Caravan" that the problem facing the military authorities today is not so much to prevent the border Pathan from stealing blankets from under the sleeping citizens as to save the rifles of the sentries on guard being stolen which even the penalty of martial law for loss of rifle and the practice of chain [...] The legend goes that the raiders were so struck by the simple naivette of the boy as the saint then was that they not only let him go untouched but returned to his companions all their belongings." At Ahmadi Banda Gandhiji explained to the Khudai Khidmatgars the place of Civil disobedence in the programme of non-violence and its relation to the constructive programme. [...] The cis-Indus District of Hazara the last to be visited during Gandhiji's tour is the Northernmost district of the N. W. F Province and the only territory of that Province east of the Indus. [...] And if Mahommedan India means to honour - his memory in a practical manner it is their duty to stand for the removal of the inequitous custom of Purdah-a custom which denies to woman the rights which are hers by all the laws of nature - a custom which carries within it the seeds of the destruction of the society which practises it.