11-28-2005, 12:08 AM
What I meant in point #4 in my post earlier was that it was essential for the Brits to convince the world and themselves that their colonizing mission was ethical. They put in a lot of effort to prove that they were being ethical. One can observe the same kind of dynamics in Iraq. I guess it is an White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant trait.
What MKG did was attack this logic. He attacked the logic that was trying to prove that without colonialism the natives were uncouth animals. Men like Ambedkar, Raja Rammohan Roy etc bought into this and to a huge extent people still buy this line. DeSouza is a prime example.
And in the meantime he did a lot of nation-building, a consensus and a momentum for independence.
Where he lost was with Islam. His techniques only worked with savages with pretensions about being civilized but didnt work with savages without such pretensions.
What MKG did was attack this logic. He attacked the logic that was trying to prove that without colonialism the natives were uncouth animals. Men like Ambedkar, Raja Rammohan Roy etc bought into this and to a huge extent people still buy this line. DeSouza is a prime example.
And in the meantime he did a lot of nation-building, a consensus and a momentum for independence.
Where he lost was with Islam. His techniques only worked with savages with pretensions about being civilized but didnt work with savages without such pretensions.