Gandhiji in his autobiography informs that "At the conclusion of the Satyagrah struggle in 1914, (in South Africa) I received Gokhle's instruction to return home via London. So in July I sailed for England". (An Autobiography or The story of my experiments with truth by M. K. Gandhi; Navjeewan Publishing Mouse, Ahmedabad, 2001; page 287). Gandhiji does not tell the readers as to why Gopal Krishna Gokhle, the then leader of the Indian National Congress asked him to return to I