Congratulatory letter from Padma Shumsher Jung on India's independence

                                                                                                                                 NEPAL

15^th August 1947

Dear Mahatmaji,

          Permit me please to approach you through this letter to tell you how very deeply gratified I do feel at the thought that your noble and selfless efforts in securing freedom for India have at last borne fruit. The spontaneous sacrifice you have made at the altar of Independence is indeed very laudable and will be written in letters of gold in the history of India. Praise be to your cult of AHIMSA which has secured independence for India and I feel sure that the same cult of yours will see India completely united in no distant future.

I hope you will allow me to avail myself of this letter to congratulate you on the success that has so far attended you along with the best of wishes for the early attainment of “Purna Swaraj” for India which is so very near and dear to your heart. May God give you good health and help you in the prayer of one who takes pleasure in subscribing himself…

                                                          Your sincere admirer,
                                                            Padma Shumsher Jung

To,

Mahatma M.K.Gandhi

Sodepur Ashram

Sodepur

24 Pargannas

Barrakpore.

Source: M.K.Gandhi (Pyarelal) Papers,XIIth & XIVth Inst., MSS Section