Which among the following statements from Gandhi's speech at the opening of Banaras Hindu University in February 1916 is not true/correct?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Gandhi charged the laboring poor with a lack of concern for the "richly bedecked noblemen".
"Gandhiji charged the Indian elite with a lack of concern for the labouring poor. The opening of the BHU, he said, was “certainly a most gorgeous show”. But he worried about the contrast between the “richly bedecked noblemen” present and “millions of the poor” Indians who were absent. Gandhiji told the privileged invitees that “there is no salvation for India unless you strip yourself of this jewellery and hold it in trust for your countrymen in India”. “There can be no spirit of self government about us,” he went on, “if we take away or allow others to take away from the peasants almost the whole of the results of their labour. Our salvation can only come through the farmer. Neither the lawyers, nor the doctors, nor the rich landlords are going to secure it.”