Gandhi rejected Black-Indian solidarity against white rule in 1939.

Evidence

Then, in 1939, disagreeing with Jawaharlal Nehru, who believed that Black Africans and Indians should stand together against the White regime in South Africa, Gandhi contradicted himself once more: “However much one may sympathise with the Bantus, Indians cannot make common cause with them.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 218

Categorization

• XREF: Gandhi’s 1939 refusal of solidarity directly undercuts the myth of a unified anticolonial front — relevant to the reader’s investigation of how caste and racial hierarchies interlock.
• QUESTION: What did Ambedkar think about Gandhi’s racial views? The book’s own author is likely deploying this to bolster the anticaste critique of Gandhi.