Gandhi’s later memoirs falsified his contemporary views of Africans.

Evidence

The retrospectively constructed image of the flogged, defeated Zulu—a dumb animal conveying his gratitude to God’s missionaries of peace—is completely at odds, as we shall see, with his views about Zulus that were published in the pages of his newspapers during those years. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 207

Categorization

• XREF: This pattern of retrospectively rewriting inconvenient truths echoes the reader’s interest in how anticaste narratives are mythologized — connects to Gandhi’s later transformation into a saint in Indian historiography.