I wonder what he meant by "the raw kaffir". Sent from my iPad
On Jul 15, 2012, at 2:03 AM, Venky <ve...@duh-uh.com> wrote: > On Saturday 14 July 2012 at 6:38 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: >> Kipling is Gandhi's contemporary, funny how they came to rather >> different conclusions about the fate of the races. > > > With quotes likes these, I don't know if I buy the theory of Gandhi being a > champion of racial equality: > > “A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little > better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children > are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is > being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.” > > “Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted > upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw > Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a > certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in > indolence and nakedness.” > > Venky (the Second). > > >
