What evidence is there that Gandhi knew or shared the idea that the Muslims had destroyed Hindu civilisation?
No, I’m not saying it as boldly as that. I’m thinking of his book about Indian Home Rule, Hind Swaraj, where he talks about the anguish of India, etcetera. I’m assuming he knows a little bit why the anguish is there. He thought the British made it all; the British made it, yes, but it started long before then. You do understand the argument of the nationalists, like Nehru They had to get people together for the independence movement, and they had to tell stories. Is it dangerous to violate that story? To point at the Muslim past? I don’t think it’s dangerous. I think it’s necessary to violate that story. Indians wonder why their country is a country of misery. I have some idea of this land trampled over, and why it was trampled over. Every country has a history. Indians live in a country without seeing the history. So without understanding there is no redemption? No, I don’t think so. You don’t think that knowing the truth about that history would predispose anybody to be anti-Islam or
