Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity

[safar]

Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity

By G. B. Singh

Reviewed by Baldev Singh

"Truth comes out breaking the walls of a fortress" is a Punjabi saying. For the lovers of truth G. B. Singh has exploded the Gandhi myth – apostle of peace, emancipator of untouchables and liberator of India by peaceful means from the British yoke – by publishing his labor of love, Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity. G. B. Singh studied Gandhi for over twenty years collecting Gandhi’s speeches, writings and other documents, which the promoters of Gandhi left out intentionally to create a twentieth century messiah by fusing Jesus Christ and Vishnu. The oppressors – the proponents of colonialism, slavery, racism and casteism - have imposed their own version of history on the victims through manipulation, deception and hypocrisy. For example there is holocaust museum in the capital of United States in the memory of six million Jews who fell victim to the atrocities of Nazis in World War II. It is commendable and such museums should be built in every capital in the world to remind people of the heinous crimes of the Nazis. But why not a museum about the genocide of native Americans or a museum about slavery in the capital of United States? It takes moral courage to look into the face of truth! In order to avoid the obligation to intervene in Rwanda, the Western powers led by President Clinton put pressure on the United Nations Security Council not to characterize the mass murder of Tootsies as genocide.

The making of Gandhi myth stared in South Africa by white Christian clergy. Rev. Joseph J. Doke, a Baptist Minster was the first to write the biography of M. K. Gandhi. Soon many other European and American clergymen and writers rushed in to make their input. John H. Holmes, a Unitarian pastor from New York praised Gandhi in his writings and sermons with titles like: Gandhi: The Modern Christ, Mahatma Gandhi: The Greatest Man since Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ji: Reincarnation of Christ and Gandhi before Pilate. Romain Rolland, French Nobel Laureate in literature looked at Gandhi not only as a Hindu saint, but also another Christ. He wrote Gandhi’s new biography in French. The English translation of this book opens with: He is the One Luminous, Creator of All, Mahatma. Impressed with lavish propaganda about Gandhi in the West, the Hindu propaganda machine came into action and it churned out a plethora of literature to elevate Gandhi to the status of twentieth century Hindu god – "The seventh reincarnation of Vishnu, Lord Rama," proclaimed Krishnalal Shridharni. Portraits of Gandhi depicted him as Hindu avatar and Christian saint. The Indian government under Prime Minister Indra Gandhi financed one-third the cost of the production of the movie "Gandhi" for the portrayal of Gandhi as "an absolute pacifist."

The Christian clergy had an ulterior motive in building the Gandhi myth. They thought that by elevating Gadhi to a 20th century messiah and then converting him would open the flood gate for evangelizing Hindu masses. Little did they realize that Gandhi hoodwinked them with his insincere statements about Christianity? He was a die-hard Hindu, a true believer and defender of the caste order – the essence of Hinduism?

Gandhi apologists indulged in gross deception by claiming that Gandhi’s Satyagrah in South Africa was in the defense of the rights of native people. Nothing could be further from truth than this bald lie. How could Gandhi, a diehard supporter of the caste system think of the welfare of African blacks he regarded lower than the Untouchables of India - slightly above the animal level? His Satyagrah was for the better treatment of Indians, who, according to Gandhi were treated the same way as savage Kaffirs (native people) were. In his stay of twenty years in South Africa, he had no social contacts with the Kaffirs, as he did not see any common ground with them in the daily affairs of life. He was horrified when he was lodged with "natives" in the same jail ward. He did not like wearing the same clothes with label "N" born by the natives, nor he liked their food and sharing lavatory with them. It was the jail experience, which brought out his racism in the open. " Kaffir and Chinese prisoners are wild, murderous and given to immoral ways. Kaffirs are as a general rule uncivilized – the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animal."

He proclaimed that the British Empire was for the welfare of the whole world and he accepted the superiority and predominance of white race. But he reminded the white people that upper caste Indians share with the Europeans a common heritage – the blood of the noble Aryan race. According to him it is Aryan blood, which is responsible for the advancement of human civilization. He suggested to Rev, Doke to civilize the Kaffirs by converting them to Christianity and by infusing Aryan blood into their race. He told the white colonists that the preservation of racial purity (Apartheid) was as important to the Indians as to Europeans.

He urged the colonial authorities to raise a volunteer militia of Indians to fight for the Empire. He told the Natal authorities that it would be a "criminal folly" if they did not enlist Indians for the war. He was rebuffed with sarcastic and derogatory comments about the fighting ability of people like Gandhi. However, his persistence persuaded the authorities to form a volunteer ambulance corps of Indians under the command of Sergeant-Major Gandhi during the Boer War and Zulu Rebellion. He urged the Indian community to show their loyalty to the British Empire by raising funds for the War. He reminded them that they were in South Africa due to the courtesy of the Empire. It is not for us to judge whether the Kaffir revolt is justified or not. We are co-colonists with whites of this land whereas the black savages are as yet unfit to participate in the political affairs of the colony.

He was a mean spirited parochial Hindu. Sergeant- Major Gandhi selected only Gujrati Hindus as his assistants, three Sergeants and one Corporal in spite of the fact the ambulance corps (20-24 men) was made up mostly of non-Gujratis with substantial number of Muslims.

The Russian Revolution of 1914 spurted national movements against colonial rule. The British brought Gandhi back to India to sabotage Indian national movement against British rule. The congress Party dominated by Gandhi was set up under the patronage of the British authorities. The "apostle of peace" urged the Indian people to support the British by enlisting in the army during World War I. In his letter he wrote to the Viceroy in1930, he said, " One of his reason for launching the Civil Disobedient Movement is to contain the violence of revolutionaries."

On the advice of white promoters of Gandhi, black clergy and civil rights leaders traveled to India to seek Gandhi’s advice about solving the problem of segregation and civil rights of blacks. How little did they know that Gandhi regarded the black people slightly above the animal level? Moreover, they were ignorant of the fact that caste system was originally imposed, as racial discrimination (Varna Ashrama Dharma) similar to the Apartheid system, on the black natives of India by their Caucasian conquerors. But later on due to emergence of new racial groups due to miscegenation between the two groups, Varna Ashrama Dharma evolved into caste system tied to hereditary occupations. Untouchabilty is as integral a part of Hindu faith as anti- Semitism of the Nazis. It is noteworthy that not a single black leader met Dr. B. R. Ambedkar – M. A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees from London University and Bar-at-Law from Grey’s Inn, London - who was the undisputed leader of the Untouchables at that time. Gandhi propaganda machine manipulated the visit of black leaders, as it did not want them to find truth about Gandhi’s views on the caste system. "I believe in Varnashrama (caste system) which is the law of life. The law of Varna (color and / or caste) is nothing but the law of conservation of energy. Why should my son not be scavenger if I am one? He, Shudra (lowest caste) may not be called a Brahmin (uppermost caste), though he (Shudra) may have all the qualities of a Brahmin in this birth. And it is a good thing for him (Shudra) not to arrogate a Varna (caste) to which he is not born. It is a sign of true humility."

In 1921, Gandhi delivered violent speeches inciting racial hatred against the British. During bloody demonstrations and riots against the visit of Prince of Wales, William Francis Doherty, an American citizen working in Bombay was murdered. Gandhi personally got involved in the cover up of this gruesome murder through bribery and intimidation, as he was concerned that the details of this murder would tarnish Gandhi’s image in the West.

It is a cruel joke and one of the biggest fabrications of the twentieth century that Gandhi won Indian freedom without spilling a drop of blood. The truth is that it was the devastating effect of World War II that forced the British government to dismantle its Colonial Empire. Moreover, it was Gandhi and his Hindu dominated Congress party that engineered the partition of the country on communal lines, as the Muslim dominant states stood in the way of high caste Hindus to set up their Ram Raj (mythical Hindu kingdom) based on caste ideology. Additionally, the Partition of India in 1947 is one of the major upheavals of the twentieth century. In the State of Punjab alone, 11-12 million people lost their homes and hearths where their ancestors had lived for centuries. May be as many as one million people perished in the communal frenzy and thousands of young women were kidnapped while Gandhi was reciting the murderous sermons from his favorite scripture – Bhagvad Gita. He kept insisting up to the last moment that the country would be partitioned only over his dead body!

The ascetic in loincloth used to sleep in buff with naked young girls to perform experiments to test his celibacy. Dr. Sushila Nayar told Ved Mehta that she used to sleep with Gandhi as she regarded him as a Hindu god. The man, who had taken vow of poverty, demanded and got even in jail the same comforts enjoyed by British high officials in India.

The "apostle of peace," who counseled a Jewish delegation" to oppose the evil of Nazism by "soul force" - by committing mass suicide, was all praise for annexing Kashmir by armed aggression.

He told his Sikh followers that rusty sword is useless in the age of Atom Bomb. The development of nuclear weapons by India - a country that ranks among the poorest in the world and is near the bottom of human development index chart of the United Nations – exposes the real face of the "absolute pacifist" and the nation that calls him "father." After all didn’t lord Krishna tell Arjana during the battle of Mahabharata "Victory is truth."

Although, the Indian people have started peeking at the man behind the mask of divinity, there is no let up in the perpetuation of Gandhi myth in the West, especially the United States.

G. B. Singh rightfully deserves the accolades for bringing out the truth about Gandhi from Gandhi’s own mouth.

[ghost_of_theo]

Originally posted by safar


1.) But why not a museum about the genocide of native Americans or a museum about slavery in the capital of United States? It takes moral courage to look into the face of truth!

2.) In order to avoid the obligation to intervene in Rwanda, the Western powers led by President Clinton put pressure on the United Nations Security Council not to characterize the mass murder of Tootsies as genocide.

Ah, another first-rate racist ranting. Whenever confronted with toxic, racist slurrings that involve digging up old graves of native American Indians, one should ask themselves this question: Of this supposed genocide, where and when exactly did the genocide occur?

Was it the Battle of Little Bighorn? But, wasn't that a battle? A battle means people fought a war with death occurring on both sides of said battle. Recently it seems that many neo-nazi-liberals have taken quite sweeping liberties defining the act of being victorious in past wars as an act of unconscionable genocide.

What really defines the depth of racism in the aforementioned statement is the assumption that native American Indians were one peoples. It's like forcing the Ainu to accept the Cherokee as one-in-the-same for the sake of stupefying intellectual laziness of the typical liberal, leftist, loser (a.k.a. the dreaded, frothing LLL).

In general, LLL's tend to accept intellectually inept banter as flag-waving articles of faith, when, in fact, it's regurgitated vile heresy of the first order.

Most sadly for this particular racist LLL, Herr Singh, the fact is there are many native American museums in America. Notwithstanding the more obvious truth that native Americans still live in America and have pledged their own lives in its defense by fighting alongside other Americans in America's military.

In confronting Herr Singh's second opaque lie, #2, one must ask themselves who was in charge of peace keeping in Rwanda at the time of the slaughter. And who was it that ordered those peace keeping troops to retreat? The answer, of course, is Kofi Annon, the former head of the U.N.'s Rwanda operation.

Casting Kofi Annon's lack of brilliance aside, in reality - reality being what those of us outside the herd of LLL's are forced to deal with - it's hardly logical for the U.N. to blame the Rwandan genocide totally on the U.N. itself. What could the U.N. have done to prevent a state sponsored genocide? It's not like the U.N. has the necessary military means to engage in a full-on war.

In other words the U.N. probably shouldn't have retreated, but, in fact, U.N. peace keepers were killed in the fighting before they retreated, but no world body nor any single country has the type of African-based fast-action military force that would've been necessary to stop the combustion of violence that occurred in Rwanda.

G.B. Singh is but another mush-headed, hysterical, quacking liar who flings intermittent oafish historical references to flatter his ego and flower his false propaganda.

One should be skeptical of such.

[muna1]

I ordered the book based on this thread and I must say I am enjoying it (halfway done). I don’t believe everything I read, but I must say I was quite appalled with some of Ghandi's behaviour towards the Zulu's. Thanks to the thread starter, I'd never heard of this book before you posted it. Got anymore to recommend?

[Malik]

Thanx Safar, I enjoyed the article, very interesting. If I can get around it one of these days I shall read the book.

[safar]

salam muna1 & Malik,

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry for the late reply but I have been quite busy at work.

In regards to finding more books on this topic you will not find much, even though lots of documentary evidence is available however you can only find that in academic research papers in Universities and news magazines. The authors of the above book have done the general public a favor by collating all this information.

However it is interesting to note that even if you read a book that was written complimentary to Gandhi you will find many inconsistencies. Both within a single biography and between multiple biographies.

First time I ever read a book on Gandhi, it was supposed to be praising him but I ended up having more questions than I started with. For example, I could not understand why he was called the champion of peace when he never effectively opposed the millions of Indians enlisting and fighting for the British in the two World Wars. If he was such an apostle of peace why didn't he rally his supporters against the two world wars.

Then it was known that he always supported the Hindu caste system, however he seemed to change his mind only when his own son wanted to marry a Hindu woman of a higher caste.

Then his idea of remaining celibate while sleeping with naked women (to test his celibacy) didn't make sense either. To top it all, he even slept with his own grand niece, talk about incest!

The idea of the British leaving India because of his various stunts is also absurd. The British and other colonial powers left India and other colonies because the two World Wars had made the colonial powers immensely weak. In fact at the end of the second world war, there were more than one million Indian soldiers under arms in the British Imperial Army. If these soldiers, after world war II had turned their guns on the small pockets of White British colonials it would have been a massacre for the White British who had been exploiting the locals for generations.

This is where the non-violence of Gandhi really mattered. He was non-violent against the British colonial rulers and he gave them a respectful, peaceful exit after a 100 year of exploitative colonial rule. That is why the British loved him so much, as the British were able to extricate themselves peacefully courtesy of Gandhi who was planted by the British themselves.

India, inherited the mantle of British colonists and exploited this Gandhian image. It gives India an image of peace while it continues to build the worlds largest military. When India exploded its first nuclear device in 1974 it called it a "peaceful nuclear explosion". So this hypocrisy of projecting an image of peace while pursuing hegemonist designs is quite helpful for its global foreign policy. Hence you see the Indian government even financing the movie Gandhi.. it helps to hoodwink the world public with a facade of peace while they build the worlds largest military.

I remember reading a book called "The 100 --A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History" by Michael Hart. He ranked our Prophet Muhammad (saw) was the most influential person in history. And he did not even include Gandhi in the top 100. He gave a very sound explanation in the afterward of the book. He concluded that the Independence of India (like other countries) was inevitable. In fact Gandhi had been known to have delayed the Independence by about 10 years by helping the British. Also the ideas about non-violence were themselves not his original ideas and finally there was no peaceful Independence of India as millions of people lost their lives in riots and Gandhi's 'fasts' were never effective to any degree.

Here is another interesting link which deals with Gandhi's incest with his grand niece:

http://eserver.org/history/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt

Just google on 'Gandhi and Incest" and you will find lots of links.

By the way I have put forward these questions to Hindus as well and they can never give me a satisfactory answer either. Though I know that most Hindus know this already and just laugh at the gullibity of the public at large.

For South Asian history there are very few good, honest books out there. Pakistan has not done a good job in producing historians. The only historian I can recommend is Dr. Khurshid Kamal Aziz. Plus you can find some good research papers from Punjab University.

Indian authors are obviously biased as well but you can find good research papers from West Bengal University. Though the authors of this book on Gandhi are Indian Sikhs.

The book that I would like to recommend these days, is not related to this topic. Its called "Following Mohammed: Rethinking Islam in the contemporary world". Don't be misled by its title. This book is actually asking the West to rethink its misconceptions about Islam... I have posted about this book in the Islam forum. It is a good book to pass along to a Non-Muslim friend.

[-theTruth-]

Thanks brov

[NAK--KKK]

safar
I have appreciated your article ...