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| Author | Colonel G. B. Singh |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Publication date | April 2004 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print Hardcover & Paperback |
| Pages | 356 |
| ISBN | 978-1-57392-998-1 |
| Followed by | Gandhi Under Cross Examination |
Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity is a book by United States Army officer G. B. Singh. The book was written in biographical form nearly 60 years after the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and challenges his image as a saintly, benevolent, and pacifistic leader of Indian independence, told through Gandhi's own writings and actions over the course of his life. The book claims that Gandhi emulated racism from the Hindu ideology of caste towards the blacks of South Africa and the Untouchables, instigated ethnic hatred against foreign communities, and, to this end, was involved in covering up the killing of American engineer William Francis Doherty.
Singh puts forward that the portrayal of Gandhi as a great leader is "the work of the Hindu propaganda machine" and Christian clergy with ulterior motives; and, furthermore, it was based on irrationality and deception which historians have failed to critically examine.