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Essay / Mahatma Gandhi: Hero or Sinner - 1284
Although for many years this was the image and only story of Mahatma Gandhi, as time passed and people in Western countries began to remember him. looking deeper and learning more about him, they began to reevaluate Gandhi. Many people oppose his re-evaluation, saying that it serves no purpose, since he has already been dead for years. Not only is the West trying to reevaluate Gandhi, but it is also blaming him for the current problems in India. Today, there are still issues in India related to ethnicity, religion and class. Even though many years have passed and there have been other leaders in place who have ruled India for all these years after him, the West still believes that even today's problems are linked to Gandhi, and that whatever happened in India today, that is what he did. left as a legacy. Some believe that he worsened the ethnic situation and that it is only because of his philosophy, passed down as a legacy from one leader to another, that India still suffers from discrimination today. After returning to India from Africa, Gandhi began praising the Hindu caste system. Analyzing his speeches and actions, Westerners today believe that all the racial and religious discrimination in India is caused by Gandhi's speeches and philosophy, since all the leaders after him were his biggest fans and therefore they praised everything what he had built. there is no other right or wrong than his words and his rules. It is also believed that India, till today, is dominated by the elites and the poor suffer only because it was designed that way from the beginning, and for the beginning it is always the Mahatma who is blamed, since it was he who launched the new India. the new lifestyle and new rules and culture...... middle of paper ......0). Email interview. Pennell, AM and BR Ambedkar. “What the Congress and Gandhi did to the untouchables.” International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-) 23.2 (1947): 274. Print. Rivett, Kenneth. “The economic thought of Mahatma Gandhi. » The British Journal of Sociology 10 (1959): 15. Print. Roberts, Glenys. “Sexual torment of a saint: New book reveals Gandhi tortured himself with the young women who adored him and often shared his bed. » Online mail. Associated Newspapers, April 9, 2010. Web. March 22, 2014. Sau, Ranjit. “Gandhi and Hindu-Muslim Marriages.” Economical and Political Weekly 34 (1999): 74. Print. Singh, GB Gandhi: behind the mask of divinity. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004. Print.Roof. M Brain. The Journal of Modern African Studies, Mahatma Gandhi and South AfricaVol. 34, no. 4 (December 1996), pp.. 643-660