Gandhi’s heroic image required actively rewriting his South African past.

Evidence

In order for Gandhi to be a South African hero, it became necessary to rescue him from his past, and rewrite it. Gandhi himself began that project. Some writers of history completed it. Towards the end of Gandhi’s stay in South Africa, the first few biographies had spread the news, and things were moving fast on the messiah front. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 268

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: the manufacturing of a Mahatma — how biography and myth-making erased inconvenient political history.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 268
• XREF: connects to: Gandhi’s South African activism opposed equal treatment with Black Africans, not segregation itself.; Gandhi’s published words contradicted his later sympathetic recollections of Zulus

Broader Connections

• Gandhi’s published words contradicted his later sympathetic recollections of Zulus #corroborates (0.75)