Gandhi rejected state power as inherently violent in favor of trusteeship.

Evidence

“The State represents violence in a concentrated and organised form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. Hence I prefer the doctrine of trusteeship.” Hindustan Times, 17 October 1935; CWMG 65, 318. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 488

63 “The State represents violence in a concentrated and organised form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence. Hence I prefer the doctrine of trusteeship.” Hindustan Times, 17 October 1935; CWMG 65, 318. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 488

Categorization

• XREF: Directly contrasts with Ambedkar’s constitutionalist/state-based caste annihilation — the central debate of this book.
• SHARE: A crisp single-paragraph Gandhi position statement useful to anyone arguing about his anti-statism.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 488