The truth about India

Gandhi, after relocating back to India toured the whole country trying to get to know the people better. He felt he needed to really understand the people before taking his next course of action. After his tour he gave this speech.
This speech is more of a narration his encounters during his tour and what needs to be done so it's style was the low plain style. Some members of the audience started walking away because he was a speaker they were unaccustomed but stopped to pay attention to him when he mentioned "the politics of the people of India is confined to bread and salt, illiterate hey may be but they are not blind, they see no reason to give their loyalty to rich and powerful men who simply want to take over the role of the British". They started paying heed to what he was saying because he was relaying exactly their thoughts. And like St Augustine defines the means of persuasion by the use of emotional appeal "he likes what you promise, fears what you say is imminent, hates what you censure, embraces what you commend,regrets whatever you built up as regrettable, rejoices at what you say is cause for rejoicing, sympathises with those whose wretchedness your words bring before his very eyes, shuns those whom you admonish him to shun ". Gandhi uses this mode of persuasion to full effect.
This speech was the first speech he gave since his return so he used to pathos to establish his ethical character as a person who was always for the people. It was the start of a rhetorical timeline and he knew he had to move the people to rally behind him.

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