: Ramachandra Guha: India’s fate hangs on whether we pick exclusionary Hindutva or Gandhi’s pluralism #IndiaNEWS In April 1915, a few months after he had returned to India from South Africa, Mohandas

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Ramachandra Guha: India’s fate hangs on whether we pick exclusionary Hindutva or Gandhi’s pluralism #IndiaNEWS
In April 1915, a few months after he had returned to India from South Africa, Mohandas K Gandhi was in Delhi, where he addressed an audience of students at St Stephen’s College. To an audience whose members came from diverse religious backgrounds, Gandhi spoke of his mentor, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who had died a few weeks previously in Pune. Gokhale, said Gandhi, “was a Hindu, but of the right type. A Hindu Sannyasi once came to him and made a proposal to push the Hindu political cause in a way which would suppress the Mahommedan and he pressed his proposal with many specious religious reasons. Mr Gokhale replied to this person in the following words: ‘If to be a Hindu I must do as you wish me to do, please publish it abroad that I am not a Hindu’.� (“Mr. Gandhi’s Visit�, St. Stephen’s College Magazine, number 32, April 1915.)In the first decades of the 20th century, some Hindu politicians as well as many Hindu holy men claimed that the numerical majority their community possessed gave them the right to dominate politics and governance in India. This belief Gandhi emphatically rejected. Like his teacher, Gokhale, he refused the temptation to define India as a...Read more

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