 | Closed Chamber Dialogue of M.K.Gandhi, which is now glaring fact that, as to how he was villian to Dalits.
Ref. : Book : Untouchables to Dalit, Author :Eleanor Zelliot
This seems to be the voice of Gandhi speaking as Mahatma. A somewhat more political motive for Gandhi's protest is indicated in the report of a conversation between Gandhi and Sardar Patel a day after the fast began. Gandhi's secretary, Mahdev Desai, recorded Gandhi's comments:
Sardar Patel : Why have you placed yourself between two stones ? This is the battle of Touchables and Untouchables. I keep telling you not to do so. Let the two stone grind each other. Why must you cone in between?
M.K. Gandhi : The possible consequences of separate electorate for Harijans (this must be Desai's editing—the word Harijan was not yet used by Gandhi) fill me with horror. Separate electorates for all other communities will still leave room for me to deal with them, but I have no other means to deal with "untouchables". These poor fellows will ask why I who claim to be their friend should offer Satyagraha/procession simply because they were granted some privileges; they would vote separately but vote with me. They do not realize that the separate electorate will create division among Hindus so much that it will lead to blood-shed. "Untouchable" hooligans will make common cause with Muslim hooligans and kill caste-Hindus. Has the British Government no idea of all this? I do not think so." |
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