Mahatma Gandhi and Britain

Hmm. Wouldn't that be like expecting the Brits to commemorate George Washington or some other architect of the dismemberment of their empire?

I am pretty sure they have a road named after him in the U.S.

Assuming we do, it wouldn't be quite the same thing to us. After all, Gandhi never separated California from the rest of the US.

Somebody should . . .

We'd make a great addition to the family of nations.

You deliberately ignorning the actions of Jerry Brown?

California is a U.S. state, isn't it? So, what's this fuss all about?

I think Blacksmith's saying, since Gandhi helped break up the British empire, it's improbable for the Brits to commemorate him ... for the Americans its easier to pay credit to Gandhi, since it wasnt their empire

But I'm thinking he's being too pessimistic ...

Here, there's Ghandi Street in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.

Thats the only one I can find on Google though, otherwise its all Teheran, Tashkent, Dar es Salaam, Cairo, Addis Abeda, Kwadukuza, Khomasdal, Trinidad, Pondicherry, Jodhpur..

Aww thanks. I had totally misunderstood Blacksmithn.

And thanks for taking time off to do the search. Hadn't it been for your help, I would have definitely called up Mr. Tony Blair. :wink:

Ghandi was certainly not only universally condemned in England, he was revered in some circles. The earliest labor organizing movements in England had been in the textile industry. During the American civil war, Palmerston was Prime Minister. Palmerston had a pathalogical hatred of America and all things American, and had he felt free to do so, he would have supported the southern Confederacy in their rebellion against the Union. But the textile workers of England considered Lincoln a hero (Palmerston detested him), and the government did not dare openly support the Confederacy.

The same sort of thing happened with Ghandi. Ghandi took to spinning and weaving cotton, saying that Indians must not buy textiles from England, but should produce their own cloth, and should wear only garments made from domestic textiles. Not only did the textile workers of England not resent Ghandi for this, they considered him a hero in the mold of their own labor agitators of years gone by.



The English working class made much of Ghandi when he visited in 1931.

Doesnt that sound great? Seriously, say this sentence out loud ... several times in a row ...

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Hello, spider! Interesting thread.
Of course, being part of the Commonwealth, we got quite a bit of information about the "pink bits" (the British Empire!) on the world map at school.
I'd be very interested to know more of Ghandi's life than the commonly known information about his life & political activity. I'm sure there was a lot more to the man.

Ghandi, Olga? If I remove the h and n from that, it would come to mean female donkey in Hindi.


Anyways, did you know Gandhi was a very lustful man. He says so in his autobiograpy.
When I have time, I will reproduce some excerpts from his book.

He was? Well, I never .....

I thought he gave up that sort of thing, to put all his energies into the good fight? (non-violent, of course! :wink:)

Tell me more, do!