 A translation of one of the letters (which was written in Gujarati) suggest that Gandhi was accusing Harilal of raping either his own daughter, Manu, or his sister-in-law.Tushar Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson) has suggested that the letter was poorly translated, and that the word being translated as rape may not have actually meant sexual assault.Harilal died of tuberculosis four months after Gandhi’s death, on the night of 18 June 1948, aged 59.