IN THE MONTH OF RAMZAN 87
Twenty-six miles to the west of Kohat, as the road
goes, is Hungoo, the headquarters of the tahsil of that
name. Gandhiji visited it on the following day. The wea-
ther was glorious and the distant mountains shone bright
and clear through the dry transparent air. The hillsides,
mostly composed of red rubble, were overgrown with
scrub and alive with countless herds of goats and fat-tailed
sheep that were scattered as far as the eye could reach
and filled the air with their plaintive bleating. At Hungoo
there was a public meeting and an address. In the address
there was a remark that the Frontier Province held the
key to India's freedom. Gandhiji in his speech while
agreeing with that remark added that in the Frontier
Province again the Khudai Khidmatgars held the key,
" Even as the rose fills with its sweet fragrance all the
air around, when one lakh Khudai Khidmatgars become
truly non-violent, their fragrance will permeate the en-
tire length and breadth of the country and cure the evil
of slavery with which we are afflicted.7'
At Hungoo, as at Kohat, Gandhiji gave important
talks to the Khudai Khidmatgars in which he explained
to them in minute detail the inner nature, working and
quality of non-violence and the way in which a begin-
ning could be made for developing it in the individual.
He referred to an address of welcome that had been
presented to him at Nasarat Khel on the way, at the
foundation laying ceremony of the Khudai Khidmatgars"
office. In it there was a reference to " our last struggle ".
" Let me tell you," he remarked, " that Civil Disobedience
may come and go, but our non-violent struggle for free-
dom goes on and will continue till Independence is at-
tained. Only the form has changed."
The other thing mentioned in that address was that
the Khudai Khidmatgars had not been cowed down by
repression and never would be. " I know," said Gandhiji,
41 that to 90 per cent Indians, non-violence means that
and nothing else. It is good so far. There is bravery In
it. But you and particularly the Khudai Khidmatgar
officers must clearly understand that this is not the whole