--- title: Some Authorities url: https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/24-some-authorities/ description: Some Authorities, from Indian Home Rule (Hind Swaraj) by M. K. Gandhi. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a pre-1914 imperial intelligence-dossier collage of colonial telegraph logs, sepia field photography and empire maps.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/detail/hero-pre1914.jpg) [Library](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/) · Book · [Indian Home Rule (Hind Swaraj)](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/) # Some Authorities This text - **Work:** [Indian Home Rule (Hind Swaraj)](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/) - **Author:** M. K. Gandhi - **Published:** 1909 Full details - **Rights:** Published in Madras in 1922; Gandhi died in 1948. A foreign work still protected in its home country in 1996 had its US copyright restored for 95 years from publication, which ended on 31 December 2017 for a 1922 book, so the edition is in the public domain in the United States (Project Gutenberg marks the ebook public domain in the USA; the Internet Archive lists the scan as not in copyright). The edition also prints a note by C. Rajagopalachari (died 1972), published with it in 1922 and covered by the same US rule; its term in India runs to 2032, so readers outside the United States should check their own law. Chapters 1. [Note](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/01-note/) 2. [Foreword](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/02-foreword/) 3. [Hind Swaraj or the Indian Home Rule: Reply to Critics](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/03-hind-swaraj-or-the-indian-home-rule-reply-to-cri/) 4. [1. The Congress and Its Officials](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/04-the-congress-and-its-officials/) 5. [2. The Partition of Bengal](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/05-the-partition-of-bengal/) 6. [3. Discontent and Unrest](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/06-discontent-and-unrest/) 7. [4. What Is Swaraj?](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/07-what-is-swaraj/) 8. [5. The Condition of England](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/08-the-condition-of-england/) 9. [6. Civilization](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/09-civilization/) 10. [7. Why Was India Lost?](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/10-why-was-india-lost/) 11. [8. The Condition of India](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/11-the-condition-of-india/) 12. [9. The Condition of India (Continued)](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/12-the-condition-of-india-continued/) 13. [10. The Condition of India (Continued)](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/13-the-condition-of-india-continued/) 14. [11. The Condition of India (Continued)](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/14-the-condition-of-india-continued/) 15. [12. The Condition of India (Continued)](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/15-the-condition-of-india-continued/) 16. [13. What Is True Civilization?](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/16-what-is-true-civilization/) 17. [14. How Can India Become Free?](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/17-how-can-india-become-free/) 18. [15. Italy and India](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/18-italy-and-india/) 19. [16. Brute-force](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/19-brute-force/) 20. [17. Passive Resistance](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/20-passive-resistance/) 21. [18. Education](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/21-education/) 22. [19. Machinery](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/22-machinery/) 23. [20. Conclusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/23-conclusion/) 24. Appendices 25. [Some Authorities](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/24-some-authorities/) 26. [Testimonies by Eminent Men](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/25-testimonies-by-eminent-men/) [← 20. Conclusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/23-conclusion/) [Testimonies by Eminent Men →](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/25-testimonies-by-eminent-men/) **Content note:** Period language and sweeping generalisations: calls Parliament "a sterile woman and a prostitute", makes broad claims about lawyers, doctors, Europeans and relations between Hindus and Muslims, and uses the period term "Mahomedans". This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) The following books are recommended for perusal to follow up the study of the foregoing:-- "The Kingdom of God is Within You"--*Tolstoy*. "What is Art?"--*Tolstoy.* "Slavery of Our Times"--*Tolstoy*. "The First Step"--*Tolstoy*. "How Shall We Escape"--*Tolstoy*. "Letter to a Hindoo"--*Tolstoy*. "The White Slaves of England"--*Sherard*. "Civilization: Its Cause and Cure"--*Carpenter*. "The Fallacy of Speed"--*Taylor*. "A New Crusade"--*Blount*. "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"--*Thoreau*. "Life Without Principle"--*Thoreau*. "Unto This Last"--*Ruskin*. "A Joy for Ever"--*Ruskin*. "Duties of Man"--*Mazzini*. "Defence and Death of Socrates"--From *Plato*. "Paradoxes of Civilization"--*Max Nordau*. "Poverty and Un-British Rule in India"--*Naoroji*. "Economic History of India"--*Dutt*. "Village Communities"--*Maine*. [← 20. Conclusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/23-conclusion/) [Testimonies by Eminent Men →](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/25-testimonies-by-eminent-men/) Indian Home Rule (Hind Swaraj), M. K. Gandhi. Published in Madras in 1922; Gandhi died in 1948. A foreign work still protected in its home country in 1996 had its US copyright restored for 95 years from publication, which ended on 31 December 2017 for a 1922 book, so the edition is in the public domain in the United States (Project Gutenberg marks the ebook public domain in the USA; the Internet Archive lists the scan as not in copyright). The edition also prints a note by C. Rajagopalachari (died 1972), published with it in 1922 and covered by the same US rule; its term in India runs to 2032, so readers outside the United States should check their own law. [Provenance and rights](https://propagandaarchive.org/library/gandhi-hind-swaraj-1909/).