Mahatma Gandhi STS?

[moyal]

"Much has been written in recent years trying to tear down the mythological figure known as
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. These anti-hagiographies appear to be aimed mainly at
tarnishing his image, trying to show that Gandhi was not the great Mahatma he is made out to be.
Some of this work focuses rather salaciously on his sleeping naked with his great-nieces in his
later years or his alleged homosexual relationship with a German bodybuilder. Other work
focuses attention on the hypocrisy and contradictory things he did or said, pointing to his racist
attitudes towards South Africa’s black population; his active support of the British in the Boer
War and the violent suppression of the Zulu uprising; his support in recruiting Indian troops for
WWI; his belief in Aryan supremacy and letters to Hitler who he called his friend; his
involvement in the cover-up of the death of an American who was killed in riots in India that
Gandhi helped instigate.

But my aim here is not to hop on the muckraking bandwagon and drag
Gandhi’s name through the mud. Whereas these efforts appear to be aimed at showing that
Gandhi was rather less than we thought, my goal here is to discover if Gandhi was rather more
than we thought."

"Was the Fakir a Faker? - Notes on the Gandhi Psy Op"
-> http://mileswmathis.com/fakir.pdf