Gandhi described African and Chinese prisoners as wild and immoral

Evidence

In his search for primitive communism, S.A. Dange would have been better advised to look towards indigenous Adivasi communities rather than towards the ancient Vedic Brahmins and their yagnyas. Gandhi too could have done the same. If anybody was even remotely living out his ideal of frugal village life, of stepping lightly on the earth, it was not the Vedic Hindus, it was the Adivasis. For them, however, Gandhi showed the same level of disdain that he did for Black Africans. Speaking in 1896 at a public meeting in Bombay, he said: “The Santhals of Assam will be as useless in South Africa as the natives of that country.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 360 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gandhi publicly described indentured Indian laborers as morally degenerate liars.; Gandhi’s published words contradicted his later sympathetic recollections of Zulus; Gandhi showed Adivasis the same disdain he showed Black Africans — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 360

Related

• Gandhi showed Adivasis the same disdain he showed Black Africans (similarity 0.91)
• Gandhi’s South African activism opposed equal treatment with Black Africans, not segregation itself. (similarity 0.85)
• In 1909 Gandhi resolved to agitate against sharing prison cells with Africans and Chinese (similarity 0.80)
• Gandhi’s later memoirs falsified his contemporary views of Africans. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Gandhi’s published words contradicted his later sympathetic recollections of Zulus #contradicts (0.80)
• Gandhi showed Adivasis the same disdain he showed Black Africans #expands (0.70) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 360