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The Story of My Experiments with Truth Part 5, Chapter 24 Summary

"The Onion Thief"

  • The battle continues. The authorities begin to take the people's possessions since they won't pay the assessment.
  • The officers also attach standing crops to their land. 
  • Gandhi suggests that the tenants remove the crop of onion that the officials had wrongly attached.
  • Several of them do and are arrested for it.
  • Gandhi says since the people are no longer afraid of jail, this repression actually inspires them.