On: How Gandhi argued his way into first-class rail car in apartheid South Africa.

[zupatol]

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).

[DenisM → zupatol]

Did you try the actual headline story?

He knew pefectly well he was not allowed there, he prepared and succeeded.