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Gandhi in England
Gandhi reached England by the end of September 1888. Everything was strange to him. He was shy and diffident, could not speak English fluently and was ignorant of British manners. Naturally, loneliness and homesickness gripped him. Gandhi became a vegetarian for life. It was difficult to get vegetarian food. Friends persuaded him to break the vow of vegetarianism but he stuck to it. He began searching vegetarian restaurants and found one ultimately. He purchased Salt’s book ‘Plea for Vegetarianism’, read it and became vegetarian out of conviction. He studied other literature and joined the Vegetarian Society.
He came in contact with the leaders of that radical cult, became a member of the Society’s Executive Committee and contributed articles to the Society’s paper. He even started a Vegetarian club in his locality and became its Secretary. This experience gave him some training in organising and conducting Institutions. Experiments about diet became a life-long passion for him.