{UAH} Gandhi: ‘Liar. Racist. Lecherous.’

Gandhi: 'Liar. Racist. Lecherous.'

  8 January 2015 15:19

Was Mahatma Gandhi really thrown from a South African train because he was in a 'white' compartment illegally? JC van der Walt says it's all a giant myth.

On 7 June 1893 the young Indian lawyer Mohandas Gandhi was thrown from the train at the Pietermaritzburg station because he refused to leave a compartment that was only for white people.
"I feared for my life. I went into the dark waiting room. There was a white man in the room. I was afraid of him. What is being expected of me, I asked myself. Must I go back to India or should I continue with God as my helper and brave whatever lies ahead for me? I decided to stay and to suffer. My passive resistance (satyagraha) started that day," was alleged 16 years later in Gandi's first biography by J.J. Doke.
This is also the story that the world heard again and again and that was taught to children in schools all over the world.

The truth is that clean Indians regularly travelled with whites in the same first-class compartments between Durban and Charlestown. However, it was compulsory to buy a bedding ticket for the overnight journey. (Yet), Gandhi flatly refused to do this. He tells in his own words in his autobiography, The Collective Works of Mahatma Gandhi, what happened that night:
"Adbullah Sheth (Gandhi's employer in Durban) insisted that I buy a bedding ticket, but out of stubbornness and pride, and to save five shillings, I refused. Abdullah had warned me about this."
That night in Pietermaritzburg Gandhi lied to a railway official about his bedding ticket. "I already have one with me," he said.
An official later requested Gandhi to move over to the goods compartment (because he did not have the compulsory bedding ticket), but Gandhi refused: "A constable came. He took my hand and put me off the train and the train steamed away".
Gandhi spent the night in the waiting room and the next morning he sent a telegram of protest to the Railways.
"The general manager approved of the conduct of the railway official. I then bought the bedding ticket in Pietermaritzburg that I had refused to buy in Durban. The evening train arrived and there was a reserved bed for me," he wrote further in his autobiography. Gandhi travelled to Charlestown in a first class compartment with his paid bedding.
Shortly after his arrival, Gandhi started writing a large number of letters about racial discrimination against Indians in newspapers in South Africa, India and England. However, he never referred to the "station incident", not even in his diary.
Sixteen years later the rev. J.J. Doke help up Gandhi as a political martyr in his biography, Gandhi: An Indian Patriot in South Africa. Later Gandhi was to give four different versions of the famous "station incident".
In the misleading 1980 film Gandhi, Gandhi (with his bedding) was not allowed to travel in a first-class compartment. He was called a "coolie", a "smart bloody k***er" and a "smart black ass". In the film a white constable throws Ghandi out of the train with brute force, (so much so) that he falls hard on to the platform. His baggage is thrown after him.
But these film scenes are false.
With the unveiling of the Gandhi statue on 6 June 1993 in Church Street in Pietermaritzburg, archbishop Desmond Tutu continued Gandhi's lies with these words: "Gandhi was thrown from the train because he sat in a compartment (that was) only for whites, although he had a first class ticket. l am glad that he had to suffer (this) great humiliation, because this awakened in him a justified rage to develop the methods of passive resistance".

Gandhi the racist
After the ANC government erected a statue in honour of Ghandi in Johannesburg in 2005, Edolphus Towns, a representative from New York, wrote in reaction to the newspaper reports about the statue to the 109th congress of the United States of America (pointing out that) Gandhi was racist towards the black people of South Africa.
Gandhi commonly referred to black people as "k***ers". He definitely knew that the word (was offensive). He referred to black people as "generally barbaric, immoral, lazy, unreliable and troublemakers".
"The black man whose occupation it is to hunt, whose ambition is only to round up a number of cattle with which to buy a wife, then spends his life in laziness and nudity.
"K***ers are as a rule barbaric. They are trouble makers, very dirty and live one degree above the animal."
Gandhi described Indians as "infinitely superior to the blacks". He regarded the white race as the dominant race, followed by the Indians, with black people at the bottom.
"The government of the Boers insults the Indians by classifying them with the k***ers.
"In the Durban post office, the entrances for the natives and Indians were together, and there was a separate one for the white people. We experienced great humiliation, and respected Indians were offended. Therefore we started petitions so that the authorities could do away with this discrimination. They then created three separate entrances, for natives, for Asians and for Europeans.
"I must admit that I feel strongly against the (inter breeding) of k***ers with Indians""
"We regard it as a wise policy of the Indians to, throughout South Africa, keep themselves apart from other races.
"We believe just as much as the whites in the purity of race. We believe that the white race in South Africa is the dominating race. Some Indians have sexual contact with k***. Indians must avoid them altogether," Gandhi wrote.
Pres. Nelson Mandela said on 25 April 1997, when the Freedom of Pietermaritzburg was given to Gandhi: "Today we are correcting a century old mistake. This station is one of the world's most infamous symbols of discrimination."

And also not in the least an ascetic…!
On Tolstoy Farm (near) Johannesburg Gandhi forces his wife and all the other women to sleep without men in separate bedrooms. However, he and Herman Kallenbach (a German bodybuilder) share a bedroom. Gandhi writes (that) sex between man and woman is "the most revolting thing on earth".
Ghandi writes a large number of love letters to Kallenbach. He writes that Kallenbach's photograph stands next to his bed and that Vaseline and cotton wool remind him of Kallenbach. He insists that Kallenbach remains chaste during his stay in London and that he must not have a seductive eye for women. He signs his letters to Kallenbach as "Higher House" and Kallenbach is "Lower House". Kallenbach never got married.
Gandhi writes to Kallenbach: "More love, yet more love; this is a love that the world has never seen. You have taken over my whole body totally. This is slavery with revenge".
In 1909 in Phoenix in Natal Ghandi starts a relationship with Millie Polak, the wife of Henry S.L. Polak, the editor of the Gandhi newspaper, Indian Opinion. They travel together to London. Henry Polak stayed behind alone and learnt later that Gandhi was a "substitute spouse" for Millie.
With his return to India in 1915, Gandhi played the role of a skinny ascetic in an attempt to convince millions of people in India to boycott all British industrial products such as woven material and even Western medicine.
The Indian government built primitive huts or ashrams for Gandhi and his followers where they lived according to ancient Indian traditions. Gandhi's primitive spinning wheel became his political trademark. (He) always walked only in his loin cloth between two young girls, his "human walking sticks".
In 1917 Gandhi started a passionate relationship with the Dane Esther Fahring. (He) also had an erotic relationship with Sarala Devi Chaudhurani. He writes to her: "I still do not have my craving for sex under control."
Madeleine Slade, the daughter of British naval admiral, became Gandhi's "human walking stick" in 1925. Gandhi discussed his spontaneous erections and ejaculations during the day and his wet dreams at night, as well as the cause of and cure for their constipation with her. In 1931 she was Gandhi's companion to England, France and Switzerland.
Two young women, Manu (18) and Abha (16), his other "human walking sticks", had to sleep naked with Gandhi on account of his experiments to stay celibate (brahmacharya). Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, regarded Gandhi's behaviour as "abnormal and unnatural".
Gandhi blamed Manu every time (that) he had an ejaculation. She regarded Gandhi as her personal god. Abha's spouse, Kanu, offered to become Gandhi's "bed warmer".
Gandhi even convinced his personal female physician, Dr. Sushila Nayar, to sleep with him in the nude. The doctor called Gandhi a Hindu god.
In 1942, at three o' clock (in the morning), journalists of the Delhi Herald photographed the naked Gandhi with five naked women. They had spent the whole night in the bed together. "Did you then have an erection?" a journalist asked the 73 year old Gandhi.
"I did nothing wrong. The true brahmachari (celibate) is someone who never has any sex objectives, who continually seeks God and is therefore able to control his ejaculations consciously or sub-consciously so that he is competent to lie naked next to naked women, regardless of how pretty they are, without becoming sexually stimulated."
Dr Nayar later became minister of health of India. She wrote in 1970: "Only later, when more people started asking Gandhi questions about his physical contact with women – such as Manu, Abhu and myself – did Gandhi think up the idea of brahmacharya.
"Initiatlly there was no mention of brahmachyara experiments." — RAPPORT

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