What is the significance of the life and teaching of Mahatma Gandhi? Is the story of his life “the story of his experiments with truth,” as he himself put it in the 1920s when he started writing his autobiography?
He was not wealthy or bourgeois. He was a useful idealist for the bourgeois as the text explains. Your misconception of him is encapsulated well in this:
if the reactionaries didn’t get into his mansion first
He died at Birla House, which was owned by the industrialist Ghanshyamdas Birla, where he was a frequent guest. During his last and final stint there he had been staying for about 150 days.
He was not wealthy or bourgeois. He was a useful idealist for the bourgeois as the text explains. Your misconception of him is encapsulated well in this:
He died at Birla House, which was owned by the industrialist Ghanshyamdas Birla, where he was a frequent guest. During his last and final stint there he had been staying for about 150 days.