Indian Home Rule

      In Ghandi's Indian Home Rule, he states that Western civilization is not good. This type of civiliztion has taken a foot hold in India and has corrupted Indians.  Ghandi beleive that the British were just interested in India for money and trade.  For this reason, the British should leave.

      One of Ghandi's main reasons for wanting the British to leave is that their modern civilization was corrupting Indians.  The big cities were like tumors.  A small part would break off ready to be carried to another part of India on the train system.  Once it was there it grew ready to move and corrupt another part of India.  If the Indians did not act soon, all of traditional India would be destroyed.

      Money is another thing that the British brought with them.  Ghandi that it was like a disease that corrupts mankind.  He says that men who work in the factories are like beasts enslaved not be power but by money.  Those men want money so they can luxuries that they don't need.  If they can't get money, men will lie, cheat, and steal for it.  Ghandi says in his Indian Home Rule, "A snake bite is a lesser poison than money, because a snake bite destroys the body, but money destroys the body, mind, and soul."

      While Ghandi beleived that money is leading man down the wrong path,  he also saw that machinery was aslo detrimental to Indians.  Machinery such as trains allow big cities to grow and expand.  This artificial locomotion also is unhealth.  People are deprived of their normal way of getting around.  Another type of machinery which Ghandi despised was the clothing mills that destroy Indian Handicraft.  In Indian Home Rule, he says that workers in these clothing mills are slaves.  He brings to the attention of the reader that before the advent of clothing mills