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In one novel, a woman nicknamed “Waterfall” says this man “pollutes” a town where a “walking advocate” and the student Dorè (“doh-RAY”) spread his philosophy. After an uplifting speech by this man, a 1935 novel ends with a poet heralding the arrival of the flush toilet. A movement led by this man inspires a boy at the Albert Mission School (10[1])to break its windows and wrongly burn his cap in a prequel to The English Teacher. A village swept up (10[1])by this man’s ideas is destroyed in the debut of an author who later turned to (10[1])metaphysics in novels like The Serpent and the Rope. This man’s autobiography The Story (10[1])of My Experiments (10[1])with Truth (10[4])discusses (10[1])being “overwhelmed” by the treatise The Kingdom of God is (10[1])Within You, (10[1])which led him (10[1])to found the ashram (10[2])Tolstoy (10[1])Farm. (10[5])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[1])what activist’s reading (10[1])of the Bhagavad Gita inspired his idea of satyāgraha ■END■

ANSWER: Mahātmā Gandhi [or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi] (The novels are Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable, R. K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends, and Raja Rao’s Kanthapura.)
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