Gandhi's motivations
Some people said how could Gandhi be a British agent when he never hankered for power or money, and lived a simple life in an ashram ?
My reply is as follows :
Different people have different motivations. For some the motivation is money, for some it is power.
Gandhi's motivation appears to be his desire to be regarded as a saint, a 'Mahatma', and the enormous power which he actually excercised over the Congress Party e.g. the way he got Subhas Chandra Bose removed from Presidentship of the party, calling Bose's election his personal defeat, though pretending to be not even a one anna member. However, as I said, all this is really irrelevant. What is relevant was whether he was objectively serving British interests.
As regards his living in some ashram, I am reminded of Sarojini Naidu's famous statement " It costs a great deal of money to keep Gandhi living in poverty ". The businessmen who financed the ashram benefited enormously
Some people said how could Gandhi be a British agent when he never hankered for power or money, and lived a simple life in an ashram ?
My reply is as follows :
Different people have different motivations. For some the motivation is money, for some it is power.
Gandhi's motivation appears to be his desire to be regarded as a saint, a 'Mahatma', and the enormous power which he actually excercised over the Congress Party e.g. the way he got Subhas Chandra Bose removed from Presidentship of the party, calling Bose's election his personal defeat, though pretending to be not even a one anna member. However, as I said, all this is really irrelevant. What is relevant was whether he was objectively serving British interests.
As regards his living in some ashram, I am reminded of Sarojini Naidu's famous statement " It costs a great deal of money to keep Gandhi living in poverty ". The businessmen who financed the ashram benefited enormously
