If this is the story I am thinking of, then Gandhi didn't even know he wasn't allowed to be in the first class. (The different links to the negotiation book do

If this is the story I am thinking of, then Gandhi didn't even know he wasn't allowed to be in the first class. (The different links to the negotiation book don't seem to work, so what I am talking about is the story linked to by sfk, which I also read in the autobiography and also figures prominently in the film).