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He communicated with the railway authorities and elicited the promise that 'properly dressed' Indians might travel first or second class. org Page 51 Mahatma Gandhi – His Life & Times arbitrary interpretation, this represented progress. Gandhi was encouraged. The Pretorian Indians formed a permanent organization. The lawsuit for which Gandhi came to South Africa brought him into contact with Roman Catholics, Protestants, Quakers and Plymouth Brethren. Some of them tried to convert him to Christianity.
He read Roman law in Latin and bought many books. He improved his English. He had no difficulty in passing the final examinations. Called to the bar on June 10, 1891, he enrolled in the High Court on June 11, and sailed for India on June 12. He had no wish to spend a single extra day in England. Gandhi does not seem to have been happy in England. It was a necessary interim period; he had to be there to get professional status. His chief English contacts were a group of aged, crusading vegetarians who he later declared, ‘had the habit of talking of nothing but food and nothing but disease’.
Only a sycophant could succeed and get on. The episode intensified his dislike of the atmosphere of petty intrigue, palace pomp and snobbery which prevailed in Porbandar, Rajkot and the other miniature principalities of the Kathiawar peninsula. It was poison to character. Gandhi yearned to escape from it. At this juncture a business firm of Porbandar Moslems offered to send him to South Africa for a year as their lawyer. He seized the opportunity to see a new country and get new experiences; "I wanted somehow to leave India".