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2 Reddit comments about The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire (South Asia in Motion):

u/kixiron · 4 pointsr/history

I recommended Gandhi's autobiography, along with Guha's Gandhi Before India and Desai's The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire. Many call him saintly, but he is complicated than that, and really human...

u/attofreak · 1 pointr/india

This article takes direct excerpts from his letters about his views on sexuality, his "experimentation" with younger girls, the disgust of his subordinate and how he reacted to him.

There has been a recent book expounding on Gandhi's racist views, belief in Aryan theory to validate denigrating South African black people while trying to make Indians seem "more equal" (that phrase sounds absurd to me, so the quotes; not from the book) to whites.