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he was?
Debatable, I guess. Certainly by inclination if not necessarily a rapist.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ghandi-slept-grandniece-historian-tells-uk-government-1460499
He did this super weird temptation trial thing, took baths them, etc. He took a vow of chastity when he was 38, but who knows what he was getting up to before then?
I'd heard the niece was younger than 18 when it started but I don't know enough of the details to say that source is wrong. What he certainly was was a racist and a sexist... Who also ended the British Empire and they're still a bunch of salty racist sexists themselves so die mad about it.
yeah thats yucky, but idk if was really hush-hush considering he wrote it down himself for publishing.
he was unquestionably racist and sexist through a modern lens but the question with this stuff is how it contrasts with the world around the person.
i always point to Hergé, whose early works were super racist by today's standard because they followed the style at the time. not using the stereotypes at that point would have made eg Tintin in the Congo harder to read for contemporary audiences due to the shared cultural understanding. later books completely changed in tone as the century progressed.