Gandhi saw the modern state as inherently violent and soulless

Evidence

Gandhi distanced himself more and more from the business of nation building. For him, the Congress party’s work was done. He wanted the party dissolved. He believed (quite rightly) that the state represented violence in a concentrated and organised form, that because it was not a human entity, because it was soulless, it owed its very existence to violence. In Gandhi’s understanding swaraj (self-rule) lived in the moral heart of his people, though he made it clear that by ‘his people’ he did not mean the majority community alone: It has been said that Indian swaraj will be the rule of the majority community, i. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 106