Gandhi’s economic policies aligned him with conservative Indian industrialists

Evidence

When Ambedkar refers to “the one who is a faithful follower of his father”, he is alluding to Gandhi’s third son, Devdas Gandhi, who, in 1937, was appointed managing editor of Hindustan Times, the newspaper owned by G.D. Birla, a Marwari Bania industrialist who was a close associate and financier of Gandhi. In Delhi, Gandhi made the palatial Birla House his residence for over twenty-five years. (The Birla House was renamed Gandhi Smriti in 1971.) Gandhi’s swarajist economic policies resulted in his colluding with the conservative industrialists of his time. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1283

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to reader’s interest in how caste and class structures were preserved through elite alliances rather than dismantled. — connects to: Gandhi’s early campaigns aimed to protect Indian merchant interests, not laborers
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gandhi’s early campaigns aimed to protect Indian merchant interests, not laborers