ABSTRACT
Gandhi was for India the liberator incarnate, sent to his people not in the Christian sense of the liberator who dies for the salvation of his people, nor in the Jewish Biblical sense of Moses delivering the Hebrews from the snares of servitude under Pharaoh. Gandhi preaches corporal correctness, honesty, a respect for elementary civic rules that leave much to be desired amongst the underprivileged immigrants, the Indians to begin with. What Gandhi wanted was a spiritual revolution that would carry in its wake the dominated and those who dominate. During the Second World War, Gandhi was disowned by the nationalists of the Congress Party because he had arrested any non-violent resistance against the Axis Powers. He finally accepted the idea of India fighting the war on the British side on condition that they leave the country. Buber's great voice touches several points in his response to Gandhi including the inevitable contradictions in his thought process and his ideology.
