The Question and Answer section for Reflections on Gandhi is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
I see no evidence of this in Orwell's, Reflections on Gandhi. One can infer, that Gandhi may have sung this in response to the fact India was a British colony, but he would have done this as a sign of respect.... not belief.
One of Orwell’s central arguments is that Gandhi’s Satyagraha was only effective as a political leveraging tool due to the particular circumstances of his struggle: one such relevant circumstance was the Indian struggle for national...
Orwell points out, home-spun cloth, “soul forces” and vegetarianism are popular images of Gandhi. He also calls him a humble, naked old man, sitting on a praying mat and shaking empires by sheer spiritual power.
