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Watch | Even Gandhiâs Enemies and Critics Cannot Do Without Him
Dr Faisal Devji, professor at St Antonyâs College, Oxford University, tells Sidharth Bhatia that context is important when it comes to criticism of Gandhi.
Mahatma Gandhi receives a donation in a train compartment. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Unknown author, Public domain
Video30/Jan/2021
More than 70 years after he was assassinated on January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi still retains a hold on the Indian imagination, even though many of his beliefs and practices are criticised sharply. He has been called racist and anti-Dalit â his relationship with Ambedkar, always fraught, has come in for closer scrutiny.
Faisal Devji
The writer is University Reader in Modern South Asian History and fellow of St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, where he is also director of the Asian Studies Centre.
Sun, Dec 27, 2020
While caste differences in India are also displaced onto a religious minority, in Pakistan this displacement locates the minority within and caste outside Islam. Caste really does allow us to see history anew.