Behramji Malabari

“ Ahmedabad is rich in sights. The remains of Mahomedan architectural art are "magnificent" even "in their ruin." The mosques and mausoleums, tombs and tanks and pleasure-grounds, vie with each other in grandeur and beauty. Nor is the Hindu style of architecture less attractive. For eight days consecutively did I do the town, often with mine host for guide, times with a Mahomedan guide picked up in the streets. Mr. Káranjwálá knows Ahmedabad probably as no other living man knows it. ”

“ He has done and suffered more in the cause of social reform than any Hindu I know of in Gujarát. He is quite earnest in whatever he undertakes, and, for a Hindu, wonderfully persevering. After the death of the heroic Karsandás Mulji, Mahipatrám has been perhaps our only Hindu reformer deserving that title. Of "lip-reformers" there is no lack at Ahmedabad, or in India; but the genuine man is only too rarely met with. With a truer education than hitherto, I hope we shall have really earnest workers in the field. ”

“ Cooverji is a man of the old school. He hates idle talk. Not given to insincere profession, and too rough-hewn by nature for mere sentimentalism, he is a terror to our "civilised" dandies. He will gladly shake an honest labourer by the hand, but holds the scented "exquisite" in horror. ”