On Saturday 14 July 2012 at 6:38 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > Kipling is Gandhi's contemporary, funny how they came to rather > different conclusions about the fate of the races.
With quotes likes these, I don't know if I buy the theory of Gandhi being a champion of racial equality: “A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.” “Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.” Venky (the Second).
