<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Gandhi would more assertively use the argument of Indians being of the same racial stock as Europeans, to justify his agitations for franchise to Indians, as he wrote to the Colonial Secretary:
   With the greatest respect to Your Honour, we beg to point out that both the Anglo-Saxon and the Indian races belong to the same stock. We read Your Honour's eloquent speech at the time of the second reading of the bill with rapt attention and took great pains to ascertain if any writer of authority gave countenance to the view expressed by Your Honour about the difference of the stocks from which both the races have sprung up. Max Muller, Morris, Greene, and a host of other writers with one voice seem to show very clearly that both the races have sprung from the same Aryan stock, or rather the Indo-European as many call it. We have no wish to thrust ourselves as members of a brother nation on a nation that would be unwilling to receive us as such, but we may be pardoned if we state the real facts, the alleged absence of which has been put forward as an argument to pronounce us as unfit for the exercise of the franchise...It has given us no small satisfaction to know that, however unjust Your Honour's speech may have appeared to us from our point of view, it breathed truest sentiments of justice, morality and, what is more, Christianity. So long as such a spirit is noticeable among the chosen of the land, we would never despair of right being done in every case.(7)
The more history books Gandhi read, the stronger his acceptance became of the tale of âwhite Aryans" of colonizing India, the obvious implication of such a tale being, that the British colonists were now just one of the many lighter-skinned foreign colonists of the subcontinent. Indoctrinating that belief into Indians was the prime purpose of the Aryan Invasion Theory, in order to generate acceptance of colonial rule. Gandhi was the type of subject Lord Macaulay would have dreamed of â someone with an average intelligence likely to accept at face value even the most absurd theory without doing much thinking on the subject:
   History says that the Aryans' home was not India but they came from Central Asia, and one family migrated to India and colonized it, the others to Europe...It is true England "wafts her scepter" over India. The Indians are not ashamed of that fact. They are proud to be under the British crown, because they think that England will prove India's deliverer.(8)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
   With the greatest respect to Your Honour, we beg to point out that both the Anglo-Saxon and the Indian races belong to the same stock. We read Your Honour's eloquent speech at the time of the second reading of the bill with rapt attention and took great pains to ascertain if any writer of authority gave countenance to the view expressed by Your Honour about the difference of the stocks from which both the races have sprung up. Max Muller, Morris, Greene, and a host of other writers with one voice seem to show very clearly that both the races have sprung from the same Aryan stock, or rather the Indo-European as many call it. We have no wish to thrust ourselves as members of a brother nation on a nation that would be unwilling to receive us as such, but we may be pardoned if we state the real facts, the alleged absence of which has been put forward as an argument to pronounce us as unfit for the exercise of the franchise...It has given us no small satisfaction to know that, however unjust Your Honour's speech may have appeared to us from our point of view, it breathed truest sentiments of justice, morality and, what is more, Christianity. So long as such a spirit is noticeable among the chosen of the land, we would never despair of right being done in every case.(7)
The more history books Gandhi read, the stronger his acceptance became of the tale of âwhite Aryans" of colonizing India, the obvious implication of such a tale being, that the British colonists were now just one of the many lighter-skinned foreign colonists of the subcontinent. Indoctrinating that belief into Indians was the prime purpose of the Aryan Invasion Theory, in order to generate acceptance of colonial rule. Gandhi was the type of subject Lord Macaulay would have dreamed of â someone with an average intelligence likely to accept at face value even the most absurd theory without doing much thinking on the subject:
   History says that the Aryans' home was not India but they came from Central Asia, and one family migrated to India and colonized it, the others to Europe...It is true England "wafts her scepter" over India. The Indians are not ashamed of that fact. They are proud to be under the British crown, because they think that England will prove India's deliverer.(8)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->