South African Gandhi - Desai Ashwin
South African Gandhi - Desai Ashwin In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South…
Specifikacia South African Gandhi - Desai Ashwin
South African Gandhi - Desai Ashwin
In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa.
The South African Gandhi focuses on Gandhi's first leadership experiences and the complicated man they reveal-a man who actually supported the British Empire. Contemporary South African leaders, including Mandela, have consistently lauded him as being part of the epic battle to defeat the racist white regime. Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed unveil a man who, throughout his stay on African soil, stayed true to Empire while showing a disdain for Africans.
For Gandhi, whites and Indians were bonded by an Aryan bloodline that had no place for the African. Gandhi's racism was matched by his class prejudice towards