Gandhi retroactively reframed his pro-colonial military service after turning anti-British

Evidence

Gandhi, on his part, never regretted the role he played in the White Man’s War and in the Bambatha uprising. He just reimagined it. Years later, in 1928, in Satyagraha in South Africa, the memoirs he wrote in Yerawada Central Jail, both stories had, shall we say, evolved. By then the chessmen on the board had moved around. Gandhi had turned against the British. In his new account, the ‘Truth’ about the stretcher-bearer corps in the Bambatha Rebellion had ‘grown’ into another ‘Truth’: The Zulu ‘rebellion’ broke out just while attempts were being made to impose further disabilities upon Indians in the Transvaal … — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 205

Categorization

• XREF: This echoes the pattern in ‘Caste is a state of mind’ erasure themes — narratives reshaped to fit a later political stance. Also resonates with postcolonial recountings of violence.