Why It’s Wrong To Believe Gandhi As Anti-Business.

Oct 01, 2021

Author Rajni Bakshi writes: “Gandhi’s asceticism in later life tends to obscure the fact that he often reminded people that he is a “vanika putra”, the son of a baniya (merchant).” In another context, Gandhi’s American admirer [and journalist] William Shirer writes: “There was something of the banian trader in Gandhi, reflecting the caste from which he came”; and Gandhi himself remained a supporter of the caste system, although he did hedge himself even as early as in 1921, when he wrote in as follows: “I believe in the varnashrama dharma in a sense, in my opinion, strictly Vedic but not in its present popular and crude sense.”

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