“I could find no explanation worthy of the Mahatma for his decision to accept leadership of the khilafat movement. The decision, it seemed to me, revealed the great man's proverbial Achilles' heel.”

— Girilal Jain

page 52, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Peoples, On Mahatma Gandhi

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