Gandhi’s denunciation of Western modernity was selective

Evidence

The rest of Hind Swaraj is a trenchant (some say lyrical) denunciation of modernity. Like the Luddites, but with no calls for machine smashing, it indicts the industrial revolution and modern machinery. It calls the British Parliament a “sterile woman” and a “prostitute”. It condemns doctors, lawyers and the railways, and dismisses Western civilisation as “satanic”. It might not have been a crude or even excessive adjective to use from the point of view of the genocide of tens of millions of people in the Americas, in Australia, the Congo and West Africa that was an inalienable part of the colonial project. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 250

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gandhi idealized traditional Indian poverty as morally superior to modernity — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 252; Gandhi idealized India’s unchanging past as morally superior civilization — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 252; Gandhi saw the modern state as inherently violent and soulless — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 106
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gandhi idealized traditional Indian poverty as morally superior to modernity — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 252; Gandhi idealized India’s unchanging past as morally superior civilization — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 252; Gandhi saw the modern state as inherently violent and soulless — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 106