Gandhi claimed a sainthood equal to the British imperial mandate

Evidence

The person who stepped into the widening breach was perhaps the most consummate politician the modern world has ever known—Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. If the British had their imperial mandate to raise them above the fray, Gandhi had his Mahatmahood. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 156

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the Ambedkar-vs-Gandhi confrontation around caste annihilation that structures the rest of the book.