@ahmedkaballo8: Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was killed on this day, five months after the British Empire split its ‘Jewel in the Crown’ into what is now known as India and Pakistan.  But while the Indian masses remember Gandhi for fighting for India’s freedom, the same can’t be said for his attitude toward Black people on the African continent nor his position on India’s poor. While living in South Africa from 1893 to 1914, he attempted to align with the white ruling class by campaigning for the elites to treat Indians better than South African Blacks, whom he called ‘savages.’ It was a callous attempt to gain favour with the ruling authorities.  Plus, while freedom fighters waged their struggle in India, many Indian communists, Dalit leaders and US sociologist Gail Omvedt (1941-2021) have argued that Gandhi mobilised the masses into the bourgeois- and upper-caste-dominated Congress Party, thus consolidating the freedom movement in favour of conservatives and preventing a genuine social revolution to uplift the lowest castes and the poor.  While many celebrate Gandhi’s achievements, the sinister South Africa chapter and his later work in favour of Indian elites, should not be forgotten. All leaders, past and present, should be held accountable for their conduct and words. Since many mark death commemorations by focusing on the positives and expunging the negatives, we at African Stream felt it was vital that we help set the record straight. #MahtmaGandhi #India #Pakistan #BlackPeople #SouthAfrica #WeAreAllAfricanStream Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14672715.1973.10406314

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