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He introduced himself and the Transvaal struggle, described the resisters going to prison rather than complying with registration laws, and asked Tolstoy’s permission to circulate ‘A Letter to a Hindoo’, including in translation. He proposed printing twenty thousand copies. He also raised an objection, politely but directly, about Tolstoy’s invocation of reincarnation, which Gandhi thought would weaken the argument for the audience he had in mind.