Gandhi actively collaborated with white colonizers to suppress Africans

Evidence

By now he seems to have forgotten that he had actively collaborated with the Whites in their wars to forcibly occupy the country, appropriate the land and enslave Africans. Gandhi chose to ignore the scale and extent of the brutality that was taking place around him. Did he really believe that it was the “negroes’ goodwill” that allowed Indian merchants to ply their trade in South Africa, and not, despite its racist laws, British colonialism? In 1906, during the Zulu rebellion, he had been less woolly about things like “goodwill” when he said, “We are in Natal by virtue of British Power. Our very existence depends on it.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 260

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in moralized caste/class hierarchy: Gandhi’s early career showing the Indian nationalist willingness to side with settler racists against Africans — a pattern relevant to how Annihilation of Caste situates Indian nationalism.