Men like Mohandas Gandhi whose intention are good but ideas too radical for are bound to gain criticism as they do with support. In the case of Gandhi, there are people who he intends to help but they refuse to accept like Ambedkar and his followers. And there are those who does not want those in need of help to receive help like Nathuram Godse and the Brahmins. These people felt that Gandhi was overstepping his bounds in the Hindu system and is no hero to the public’s interest. India’s first Law Minister and the chief architect of the Constitution of India Bhimaro Ramji Ambedkar’s conflicts with Gandhi lies in several differences of understanding and opinion of Indian society, the caste, the Poona Pact, and the question of whether Gandhi
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Their main opposition against Gandhi for one, was his movement’s changing of the social order of India that is centralizing the periphery (Nandy, “Final Encounter,” 71). This is threatening intellectuals and those with higher status in society as their dominant position Gandhi’s support for the larger presence of women in society, touched on Brahman’s fear of female contamination and Kshatriya, angered by this tampering of the sexual …show more content…
Looking at his backstory explains what prompted him to kill the Mahatma. During his trial for his murder of Gandhi, he demonstrated his hyper masculinity as he criticized Gandhi for the “emasculation of the Hindu community and make it incapable of resisting oppression” (Godse,“May It Please Your Honor, 42). He also discusses the futility of Gandhi’s fasts and how he failed as Father of the Nation but rather proven to be the “Father of Pakistan” (Nandy, 83). As a hyper-rational individual Godse also disapproved of Gandhi’s de intellectualization of Indian politics. Gandhi did so to prevent middle class intellectuals dominance. Essentially, he was epitomized the opposite of Gandhi’s teachings of nonviolence, critique of modernity and hyper rationality and the softening of politics. It is no surprise that Gandhi was killed by someone like him. Gandhi was no stranger to opposition and took no means of security for himself and continued to fight for what he believed in died a proper death fitting for a
Their main opposition against Gandhi for one, was his movement’s changing of the social order of India that is centralizing the periphery (Nandy, “Final Encounter,” 71). This is threatening intellectuals and those with higher status in society as their dominant position Gandhi’s support for the larger presence of women in society, touched on Brahman’s fear of female contamination and Kshatriya, angered by this tampering of the sexual …show more content…
Looking at his backstory explains what prompted him to kill the Mahatma. During his trial for his murder of Gandhi, he demonstrated his hyper masculinity as he criticized Gandhi for the “emasculation of the Hindu community and make it incapable of resisting oppression” (Godse,“May It Please Your Honor, 42). He also discusses the futility of Gandhi’s fasts and how he failed as Father of the Nation but rather proven to be the “Father of Pakistan” (Nandy, 83). As a hyper-rational individual Godse also disapproved of Gandhi’s de intellectualization of Indian politics. Gandhi did so to prevent middle class intellectuals dominance. Essentially, he was epitomized the opposite of Gandhi’s teachings of nonviolence, critique of modernity and hyper rationality and the softening of politics. It is no surprise that Gandhi was killed by someone like him. Gandhi was no stranger to opposition and took no means of security for himself and continued to fight for what he believed in died a proper death fitting for a