The previous perception of Gandhi was that of an ascetic state leader, the spiritual leader of the Indian people, the founding father of India, and the founder of Gandhiism, a modern political doctrine that advocated nonviolent resistance. His spiritual ideas led the country towards independence, free from British colonial rule. His philosophy of "non-violence" influenced nationalists around the world and international movements for peaceful change. He is a very positive character, but after reading a few books recently, I found some things that Gandhi is lesser known about, and I put them together and discussed them together if everyone is interested.
Then the Indian side criticizes Gandhi, mainly concentrated
First: Gandhi's style was not democratic enough. For example, even if a person is very good, but because of the contrary to Gandhi's views, Gandhi will not support him. This happened to chakravarti rajagopalachari, who began by claiming that he was the only successor, and was later kicked out of the assembly due to political disagreements (the cripps commission incident). Gandhi's entire style was one of dictatorship rather than democracy.
Second: the chauri chaura incident, which resulted in 19 people being sentenced to death, 110 sentenced to life imprisonment and 6 dying in police custody. But Gandhi's actions were bizarre, Gandhi was soon considered to be the culprit in the bloodshed, he felt that he was too hasty in encouraging people to resist, did not fully emphasize the non-violent nature, and Gandhi was later arrested and sentenced to 6 years, but he was soon released in 1924, that is, for this reason, the Congress party stopped the national non-cooperation movement.
Third, it triggers a split between India and Pakistan. Many Indians have so far been angry about the india-Pakistani split, and feel that there should be a strong unification at that time. This involved a Muslim issue, and the agreement between the Muslims and the British colonists at that time was that you would support me in the war, and I would support your independence, and as a result, Pakistan would become independent. But Gandhi did not forcefully promote national unification, at least not as Lincoln did.
Fourth, Gandhi's hypocrisy. For example, Gandhi agreed to recruit Indians as front-line soldiers, which in itself is contrary to the principle of non-violence. Gandhi opposed imperialism, but in South Africa he said that the white people in South Africa should be dominant. He opposed the dalit system, but supported the caste system.
Fifth: Gandhi's private life does not seem to be as good as the media propaganda, Gandhi always wanted to test his endurance in his later years, and engaged in an ascetic experiment by letting sleep with him to see if he could restrain himself, these included his nieces and granddaughters, and all the experiments eventually failed, that is, Gandhi did not hold back...
Sixth: The Death of Gandhi's Wife. Well...... Anyway, Gandhi has been hindering the treatment of his wife, and even at the end of the day he came up with a special drug (penicillin) to inject his wife, he was against science, and he thought that injections were violent.
Some Chinese netizens commented on Gandhi in this way
When someone else slapped you, Chairman Mao told you to beat him with all your might! Fight to the death! Let him never dare to touch your finger again!
Someone slapped you, Chiang Kai-shek told you. First find the big brother to mediate, don't fight first, he wants to stab you with a knife and you will fight back!
Someone slaps you, and Gandhi tells you to come and give the other side of the face, let him continue to beat, and when you punch his hand with your face and it is all blood, he will be your slave!
Finally, it should be noted that Gandhi's positive influence on India and on the world was enormous, and for the Indian people, Gandhi gave this country not only independence, freedom and democracy, but also faith. But who has no fault? What do you think of Gandhi?
