Gandhi read Boer camp suffering as cheerful satyagraha

Evidence

Several years later, after he returned to India, when Gandhi wrote about the South African war in his memoirs, he suggested that the prisoners in the camps were practising a cheerful form of satyagraha (which was the course of action he prescribed to the Jews of Germany too): Boer women understood that their religion required them to suffer in order to preserve their independence, and therefore, patiently and cheerfully endured all hardships … — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 193

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this retrospective idealization characterize Gandhi’s later prescriptions to Jews and other victims, and how does Ambedkar weaponize this against him?