{"id":12003,"date":"2006-12-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/12\/30\/what-churchill-said-about-gandhi\/"},"modified":"2006-12-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T12:00:00","slug":"what-churchill-said-about-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/12\/30\/what-churchill-said-about-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"What Churchill Said about Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">HPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, ENGLAND, December 30, 2006: In yesterday&#8217;s HPI, we reported that Chris McGovern, director of Englands History Curriculum Association, disputed a quote attributed to Winston Churchill calling Gandhi a &#8220;half-naked fakir.&#8221; While that definitely wasn&#8217;t a direct quote, it doesn&#8217;t seem to misrepresent the actual statement. Churchill said, &#8220;It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious middle temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half-naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the king-emperor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPI LONDON, ENGLAND, December 30, 2006: In yesterday&#8217;s HPI, we reported that Chris McGovern, director of Englands History Curriculum Association,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}