In the following brief video, Indian activist Arundati Roy challenges the way the global elite has repackaged Mohandas Gandhi as a hero to be worshiped and adored. She delivered her talk shortly after the publication of The Doctor and the Saint, a book length introduction to a new edition of The Annihilation of Caste. The latter was written in 1936 by Dalit (aka Untouchable) lawyer and activist Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar. Gandhi bitterly fought Ambedkar and his ideas during his lifetime. This, according to Roy, was based on Gandhi’s entrenched beliefs about racial superiority, both towards Dalits and black South Africans.
So, this begs the question: why have these myths, particularly that he was an absolute advocate of nonviolence, been so widely disseminated in our schools and media?
I think because all ruling classes have secured their ruling position through the use of violence, and they fear such violence being used against them. See also this, this, this, this, and this.