{"id":42998,"date":"2018-06-25T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42998"},"modified":"2018-06-05T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:19:18","slug":"qotd-gandhi-and-the-british-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/25\/qotd-gandhi-and-the-british-army\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Gandhi and the British army"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The film, moreover, does not give the slightest hint as to Gandhi\u2019s attitude toward blacks, and the viewers of <em>Gandhi<\/em> would naturally suppose that, since the future Great Soul opposed South African discrimination against Indians, he would also oppose South African discrimination against black people. But this is not so. While Gandhi, in South Africa, fought furiously to have Indians recognized as loyal subjects of the British empire, and to have them enjoy the full rights of Englishmen, he had no concern for blacks whatever. In fact, during one of the \u201cKaffir Wars\u201d he volunteered to organize a brigade of Indians to put down a Zulu rising, and was decorated himself for valor under fire.<\/p>\n<p>For, yes, Gandhi (Sergeant-Major Gandhi) was awarded Victoria\u2019s coveted War Medal. Throughout most of his life Gandhi had the most inordinate admiration for British soldiers, their sense of duty, their discipline and stoicism in defeat (a trait he emulated himself). He marveled that they retreated with heads high, like victors. There was even a time in his life when Gandhi, hardly to be distinguished from Kipling\u2019s Gunga Din, wanted nothing so much as to be a Soldier of the Queen. Since this is not in keeping with the \u201cspirit\u201d of Gandhi, as decided by Pandit Nehru and Indira Gandhi, it is naturally omitted from the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Grenier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/articles\/the-gandhi-nobody-knows\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Gandhi Nobody Knows&#8221;, <em>Commentary<\/em><\/a>, 1983-03-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film, moreover, does not give the slightest hint as to Gandhi\u2019s attitude toward blacks, and the viewers of Gandhi would naturally suppose that, since the future Great Soul opposed South African discrimination against Indians, he would also oppose South African discrimination against black people. But this is not so. While Gandhi, in South Africa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,7,23,28,5,41],"tags":[31,1195,122,99,252],"class_list":["post-42998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-history","category-india","category-media","category-military","category-quotations","tag-army","tag-gandhi","tag-movies","tag-racism","tag-southafrica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bbw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42999,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42998\/revisions\/42999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}