Overleg:Mahatma Gandhi

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De spelling is Gandhi niet Ghandi Jcwf

In de taaldatabank van de VRT spreken ze ook van Gandhi;

Gandhi, Mahatma
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Volksleider in het vroegere Brits-Indië.

en de Gandhi website's bevestigen dit ook. Dit is nuttig om er aan te denken dat het niet is omdat het op Engelstalige Wikipedia iets zegt dat het ook juist is. Giskart Walter 5 jun 2003 01:20 (CEST)

[bewerk] Gandhi als racist

Kanttekeningen bij Gandhi lijken me prima. Alleen hier gaat het wel over een heel specifiek deel. Ik mis hier een bron van het citaat. Verder wijkt het erg af van de Engelse versie waar onder het kopje 'Critici' een hele reeks kanttekeningen bij Gandhi's politiek worden geplaatst. En overigens niet over racisme, terwijl de Amerikanen daar toch altijd heel fel in zijn. --Eezie 31 aug 2006 00:12 (CEST)

Er is geen bronvermelding en het is de enige edit van de persoon die het heeft toegevoegd. Dit soort dingen moet gewoon worden verwijderd. KittenKlub 31 aug 2006 09:46 (CEST)

Als je enige research op het web doet zul je die ongetwijfeld toch wel kunnen vinden. Gandhi wordt hier weer als een soort heilige neergezet terwijl hij ook hele andere kanten had. Hij was stronteigenwijs en had ook onwrikbare, maar foute, meningen over dingen waar hij gewoon niets van afwist. En in zijn zuidafrikaanse tijd was hij zeker een racist, althans zoals wij dat nu zouden opvatten. Ik ben het er dus absoluut niet mee eens dat deze kritische kanttekeningen zonder meer zijn geschrapt. De film Gandhi, grotendeels door de indiase regering betaald, is een van de minst betrouwbare verslagen van zijn leven. Ik kopieer hier ook even het kopje 'kritiek' uit het engelstalige artikel. Op b.v. de site

HIER kun je ook gefundeerde informatie, met bronvermelding, vinden ovr allerlei minder positieve kanten van Gandhi. Bart (Evanherk) 29 sep 2006 20:27 (CEST)

" Criticism

B. R. Ambedkar, the Dalit leader, condemned Gandhi's terming the untouchable community as Harijans. Ambedkar and his allies also felt Gandhi was undermining Dalit political rights. Muhammad Ali Jinnah and contemporary Pakistanis condemned Gandhi for undermining Muslim political rights, though the concept of these rights was totally foolish and would have led to communal tension. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his allies condemned Gandhi for appeasing Muslims politically, thus facilitating the creation of Pakistan. Savarkar himself was implicated in the trial following Gandhi's murder, as he was the mentor of the assassin Nathuram Godse and an important Hindu Mahasabha leader. In contemporary times, historians like Ayesha Jalal blame Gandhi and the Congress for being unwilling to share power with Muslims and thus hastening partition. Hindu political activists like Pravin Togadia and Narendra Modi have been known to criticize Gandhi's leadership and actions.

Gandhi has also been criticized by various historians and commentators for his attitudes regarding Hitler and Nazism. Gandhi believed that Hitler's hatred could be transformed by non-violent resistance. Gandhi has come under fire in particular for saying that the Jews would win God's love if they willingly went to their deaths as martyrs. [24] Some criticism of Gandhi has been challenged in a number of articles [25].

Gandhi has also been criticized by anti-communists for calling Lenin a "titan in spirit".

Mohandas Gandhi's sleeping arrangements attracted public attention during the winter of 1946-47, when he was trying to quell violence between Muslims and Hindus in the Noakhali district in what is now Bangladesh. It came out that Gandhi was sleeping nightly with his 19-year-old grandniece, Manu. In part this was an effort to stay warm in the winter chill, but Gandhi soon acknowledged there was more to it: he was testing his vow of brahmacharya, or total chastity in thought and deed. If he could spend the night in a woman's embrace without feeling sexual stirrings, it would demonstrate that he had conquered his carnal impulses and become "God's eunuch." It turned out that Manu was not his first brahmacharya lab partner--he'd also recently gotten naked (partly, at least) with another young woman in his extended family, starting when she was 18.

There were quite a few raised eyebrows in India. One of the most vocal critics was Nirmal Kumar Bose, a university lecturer who served as Gandhi's interpreter in Noakhali. While conceding that no intercourse had taken place (Gandhi and his entourage typically all slept in the same room) Bose protested that the master was exploiting the women, each of whom felt she had a special place in his affections and became "hysterical" if slighted. (Refer the account by author Ved Mehta in his 1976 New Yorker series on Gandhi and his followers.) Gandhi, far from being abashed, vigorously defended himself in meetings, letters, and articles, arguing that making a woman "the instrument of my lust" would be far more exploitative than what he actually did.

Remarkably, the critics eventually quieted down. Even Bose, who quit in protest and later discussed the issue in a book, My Days With Gandhi, remained an admirer. Gandhi continued to sleep with women until his assassination in 1948, and the matter is little remembered today. The esteem in which Gandhi was held no doubt partly accounts for the lack of repercussions, along with his advanced age. His notoriously eccentric views on sex may have been a factor too. Gandhi believed that sex for pleasure was sinful (for that matter, he felt eating chocolate was sinful), that sexual attraction between men and women was unnatural, and that husband and wife should live together as brother and sister, having sex only for purposes of procreation.

Bart (Evanherk) 29 sep 2006 20:18 (CEST)