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Some scholars state Gandhi supported a religiously diverse India, [176] while others state that the Muslim leaders who championed the partition and creation of a separate Muslim Pakistan considered Gandhi to be Hindu nationalist or revivalist.
May 28, 2011 · His religiosity was eclectic and individual, a product partly of what was given to him, but partly too a matter of his instincts, which were then consolidated over the years by his haphazard reading and his highly personal and searching reflection.
- Akeel Bilgrami
- 2011
Oct 21, 2004 · Though Gandhi was deeply religious, he said he would have opposed the author’s proposal for a state religion even if the whole population of India had professed the same religion. He considered religion to be a personal matter and argued that the State can look after only the citizens’ secular welfare, health, communications, foreign ...
Feb 2, 2024 · While he argued for bringing religiosity and spirituality to bear on politics, he simultaneously supported the idea that a secular Indian state should ban religious education from state schools. According to Gandhi, institutionalized religion must be separated from politics.
- Wolfgang Palaver
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Gandhi’s family practiced a kind of Vaishnavism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism, that was inflected through the morally rigorous tenets of Jainism —an Indian faith for which concepts like asceticism and nonviolence are important.
Sep 25, 2017 · To sum up, Gandhi's secularism during his last years, which emphasized the separation of religion from the state/politics, or so to speak the ‘privatization’ of religion, was not itself the end (sādhya) of his thought.
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Deeply religious as he was, Gandhi said that he would have opposed any proposal for a state religion, even if the whole population of India had professed the same religion. He looked upon religion as a ‘personal matter’.
