Gandhi’s later memoir recast defeated Zulus as grateful recipients of his corps’ mercy

Evidence

The Zulu ‘rebellion’ broke out just while attempts were being made to impose further disabilities upon Indians in the Transvaal … therefore I made an offer to the Government to raise a Stretcher-bearer Corps for service with the troops … The corps was on active service for a month … We had to cleanse the wounds of several Zulus which had not been attended to for as many as five or six days and were therefore stinking horribly. We liked the work. The Zulus could not talk to us, but from their gestures and the expression in their eyes they seemed to feel as if God had sent them our succour. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 206

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that the Zulus saw the corps as God-sent succour — given the corps served the force suppressing them — is worth interrogating as narrative self-construction.
• XREF: connects to: Gandhi’s heroic image in South Africa was actively manufactured and rewritten — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 268; Gandhi’s published words contradicted his later sympathetic recollections of Zulus; Gandhi romanticized Boer camp starvation as noble sacrifice — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 194 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Gandhi’s heroic image in South Africa was actively manufactured and rewritten — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 268; Gandhi’s published words contradicted his later sympathetic recollections of Zulus; Gandhi romanticized Boer camp starvation as noble sacrifice — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 194 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Gandhi’s sentimentalized Zulu portrait contradicts his contemporaneous newspaper views of them #corroborates (0.95) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 207