Gandhi’s anti-industrial message was bankrolled by industrialists.

Evidence

So the Mahatma who promoted homespun khadi and the wooden charkha was sponsored by a mill-owner. The man who raged against the machine was kept afloat by industrialists. This arrangement was the precursor to the phenomenon of the corporate-sponsored NGO. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 271

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s interest in hypocrisy within reform movements — links to the deeper pattern that caste-reform rhetoric often conceals class interests.

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• Gandhi never seriously challenged industrialists or landed aristocracy. (similarity 0.82)
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• Gandhi belonged to a long line of privileged-caste reformers (similarity 0.79)