In short
Part 3 of a Gandhi-focused history episode covering Gandhi’s return to India (1915) after 21 years in South Africa, his World War I stance, and his role in major resistance campaigns: Champaran (indigo forced-cultivation protests), Ahmedabad (1918 mill strike), the Rowlatt Act protests (1919), and the Amritsar Massacre (April 13, 1919), plus subsequent Punjab violence and the shift toward Non-Cooperation and swadeshi (boycotting British goods).
Key claims
Gandhi’s “non-violent” approach includes contradictions (recruiting non-combatants for the British war effort), and his civil disobedience is portrayed as effective (strikes forcing concessions) but also as provoking British repression. The episode frames Amritsar and later Punjab bombings as atrocities, highlights British legal/administrative brutality (imprisonment without trial under the Rowlatt Act), and argues Gandhi’s movement becomes a mass political strategy via the Indian National Congress.
Notable examples
Champaran indigo uprising; Ahmedabad mill workers’ pay bonus dispute and Gandhi’s non-violent strike; Rowlatt Act imprisonment; Amritsar festival surrounded by walls with Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordering troops to fire; death toll disputes (1,000 Indian estimates vs 379 official); Gurjanwala railway station burning and RAF bombing of a school.
Guests
None mentioned; the episode features hosts Horatio Gould and Charlie (no guest biographies provided).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOGandhi's Return to India
1:42 to 2:34
Discussion about Gandhi's return to India from South Africa and his early political involvement.
“Who's got part one and part two and go, that fucking hell, what's that?”
Gandhi's Involvement in World War I
2:34 to 4:00
Exploring Gandhi's attempts to recruit Indians for the British war effort and the reactions to it.
Contradictions in Gandhi's Philosophy
4:00 to 4:50
Analyzing the contradictions in Gandhi's advocacy for non-violence while engaging in war-related activities.
“Surely, you who would not take up arms, even in the cause of your own oppressed people, cannot be willing to shed blood in this wicked cause.”
Gandhi's Stance on Home Rule
4:50 to 5:55
Discussion on Gandhi's views regarding home rule and his focus on the war effort despite political challenges.
Gandhi's Actions in Champaran
5:55 to 11:45
Gandhi's involvement in the Champaran uprising and his support for farmers forced into indigo production.
“Yeah, I'm going to fucking, I'm going to go have a wank later.”
Gandhi's Actions in Champaran
11:47 to 13:05
Gandhi's involvement in the Champaran uprising and his support for farmers forced into indigo production.
“with which you can explore images of Vag Pussy Nunga Nungas.”
Gandhi's Legacy and Perception
13:05 to 14:00
Discussion about Gandhi's legacy and how it contrasts with the popular understanding of his actions.
Gandhi's Complex Legacy
14:00 to 15:08
Explore the dual nature of Gandhi's persona as both revered leader and annoying figure.
The Mill Strike of 1918
15:08 to 16:14
Discussion on the mill strike in Ahmedabad and Gandhi's role in advocating for workers' rights.
“I mean, imagine COVID, where he's like, we're just going to pay you more to keep working.”
The Roller Tacks of March 1919
16:14 to 17:24
An examination of the British response to Indian protests and Gandhi's growing influence.
“And so, again, Gandhi is showing that not listening pays dividends.”
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Gandhi's Protests and the Threat Perception
17:24 to 18:31
Gandhi's realization of British fears regarding Indian independence as he leads protests.
“Listen, we're about to get to some good stuff.”
The Amritsar Massacre Unveiled
18:31 to 24:51
A detailed account of the Amritsar Massacre, its historical context, and its brutal consequences.
“He's being, I'm actually, I'm not going to listen to you.”
General Dyer's Controversial Legacy
24:51 to 28:00
Discussion of General Dyer's actions during the Amritsar Massacre and the British government's response.
“He, yeah, so they just fire all the ammunition.”
Gandhi's Influence and Controversy
28:00 to 30:50
Explore Gandhi's impact and the controversies surrounding his actions during the British rule in India.
“This is after the arrest of local leaders.”
Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement
30:50 to 34:14
Understand Gandhi's role in the non-cooperation movement and its implications on Indian self-rule.
“My wife goes to my internet search history.”
Modern Leadership Comparisons
34:14 to 35:39
Analyze the differences in leadership styles between historical and modern leaders.
Vulva Envy and Gender Identity
35:39 to 37:49
Discuss Gandhi's views on gender and the concept of vulva envy in the context of masculinity.
“Starting or growing your own business can be intimidating and lonely at times.”
Vulva Envy and Gender Identity
37:53 to 38:39
Discuss Gandhi's views on gender and the concept of vulva envy in the context of masculinity.
“I'm Raven Smith, and I wrote and read a real love story about this exact sitch.”
Reflection on Gender Perspectives
38:39 to 42:00
Engage in a humorous discussion on gender perspectives and personal experiences.
“Because penis envy, which all women have.”
Envy of Cleanliness: Masculine vs Feminine Bodies
42:00 to 44:25
The hosts discuss the challenges of maintaining personal cleanliness in relation to gender.
“No, I think if I was a woman, I wouldn't be eating dog food.”
Gandhi's Physical Struggles and Their Impact
44:25 to 48:00
Exploration of Gandhi's health issues, particularly his bowel problems and their psychological implications.
“That's what the great Israel pivot is in the 60s.”
Gandhi's Constipation and Civil Rights Activism
48:00 to 51:08
The hosts humorously connect Gandhi's digestive issues to his civil rights efforts and reflections on historical narratives.
“You know, he's someone who managed to succeed in his spiritual purity.”
The Salt March: Gandhi's Defiance Against British Rule
51:08 to 56:00
A detailed look at Gandhi's Salt March and its significance in the context of India's struggle for independence.
“During the salt march, which we haven't gotten to yet.”
Gandhi's Salt March and Its Impact
56:00 to 57:28
Learn about Gandhi's Salt March, its significance in civil disobedience, and its global impact.
Churchill's Dismissal of Gandhi
57:28 to 57:55
Explore Churchill's critical views on Gandhi, highlighting the political tensions of the time.
“in return for an end to civil disobedience.”
Gandhi's Political Struggles and Future
58:58 to 1:01:05
Discuss Gandhi's efforts towards Indian independence and the upcoming focus on his personal letters and politics.
“And so I think he says that only he can talk to the British and a bunch of the other congresspeople aren't allowed to go.”
Transcript
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1:25Welcome back, pigos. It's part three of our Gandhi epic. I'm with Horatio Gould. Bloody hell. Fucking hell, it came out of the hand funny. He's gone for it. He's gone for it. He's done a big old Indian googly. Bloody bastard. Part three. You think we're safe in part three? Yeah. Buried. Buried. Buried deep. Who's got part one and part two and go, that fucking hell, what's that? I thought, bloody bastard. No, turn that off. Turn that off. Not for me. We are in India though. We're back in India. Gandhi's been in South Africa in the 1890s and he's a product of that time and place. It's the 90s. It's the 90s.
1:58It's a different time. Different time. There was no phones. You know, Blair, there was no social media. the 90s, the end of history, the 1890s. You know? So Gandhi returns to India, having spent 21 years in South Africa, having supported the British in the Boer War. And you understand Gandhi at this point. I understand Gandhi. Gandhi very handy. Yeah. Gandhi very randy. Yeah. Gandhi not on Mandy. Now, he's involved in the Boer War, the Zulu uprisings, and a miners' strike. And he's developed his Satyagadha philosophy. truth force right that sounds like a russell brand like well live stream this is the long road to russell brand it is he's a bit of a gandhi the russell brand pervy guy in a fucking bath towel wrestle brussell brand could have done with a lot more semen retention yes that's true uh but anyway back to fucking russell bindi um gandhi returns to india in 1915 and he is now engaged in resistance against the british right Anakin has become Darth Vader he's been corrupted he has uh he begins when he joins the Indian National Congress which is the leading political party for Indian independence because but this is during the war this is Ireland trying to get into everyone's now now that we're busy it's just fucking can you just wait till we're finished all of you all of you this is not the time our weakest they try to take advantage of us I know it's terrible it's disgraceful it's as i said they're the empire in star wars and we the british empire are the brave rebels the death star of the irish independence movement the brave the brave soldiers who shot shot of the easter rising is the the ewoks and the x-wings i love star wars what a great franchise um world war one uh gandhi attempts again he's still he's still on our side at this point gandhi attempts to recruit non-combatants to join the british forces during world war one he wants to show that the british empire that young indians can show their capability to self-govern it's a it's an error to do that you're wrong gandhi that's not how colonialism works okay we will use you as your expedient yeah so because from the british perspective if they're like was like brilliant they're helping us handy gandy until you're not handy gandy yeah exactly yeah so his friends are not impressed with this though with one writing i was struck to the heart this morning with sorrow to see that you and other Indian friends had offered to serve the English government in this evil war in any way they might demand of you.
4:31Surely, you who would not take up arms, even in the cause of your own oppressed people, cannot be willing to shed blood in this wicked cause. And again, it's his contradiction. He's non-violent and yet he's getting involved. Yeah. But he's doing ambulance shit. He's sort of like a war cuck. Go on. Isn't he? He's not getting involved but he's sort of... He's there. He's there. He's watching. I just wanted to watch you. no no no i wouldn't be involved no no no please please please you go ahead though so he's standing on the sidelines watching the people fight yeah and yes i suppose he's he's he's is he gaining some sort of spiritual power well it's all very consistent i guess the cuck semen retention it's all consistent well the cuck masturbates not always the self-controlled cuck sometimes there's a level well I suppose actually as we'll get to the next episode Gandhi would test himself by watching what did you just flick across the screen there Charlie I was just thinking if he ever said did he say I'm non-violent because you took away so quickly and it's rare for you to do that so can you bring that back up please makes me think it's something absolutely abhorrent it's not actually oh that's why you probably took away so quickly no this is a good search you need to get that away immediately well is it non-violent or violent nard sorry sorry i'm non-violent or did he actually mean i'm violent not well i imagine he could have said it like that but maybe he could have gone like this i'm super violent on opposite day that's what i mean right well maybe yeah i guess maybe if gandhi saw it permanently being opposite day oh well it's a war brilliant i'm really violent and we've translated it as non-violent yes well it's easy to yeah it's the same the same thing it's how english works isn't it that that's how borat speaks well they still achieve the same end it's just a different mode of communication go on mahatma borandi mahatma boratandi my wife i hate my wife i hate my wife i do not fuck my wife do not the fuck my wife well we'll get into uh mahatma and the jews next episode but um yeah no it's it's it's not he's non-violent not violent nah well he could do that yeah i could do that Yeah, I'll fight with the one.
6:42He's not a laugh, though. No, he's not. Sorry, he's a laugh. Yeah, I'm going to fucking, I'm going to go have a wank later. It's a lot of that, really, isn't it? Anything that someone normally would do, he does it and then goes, Yeah, he's not bantering about it. No, he was... There was the video of him. He's wanking in the mirror, he's like, you will never get this because he's not allowed to come. Right, right. You will never get this. Up to himself. Yeah. Do you remember that? What do you mean? You'll never get this. What do you mean you remember this? From the film. Do you remember when Borat's like, you'll never get this, you'll never get this.
7:15He's preventing somebody from shagging their sister or something. Oh, sorry, right. And he's wanking them. I thought, because you're such a sexual freak, I thought you masturbate in the mirror by going, you're never going to get this. You do masturbate in the mirror though, Charlie. No, I don't. Charlie, you do. I have done to see what it looks like and it looks horrible. Yeah. And now I do it on the bed. But I imagine you talk to yourself going, you're never going to get this. You're not worth this. You're never going to get this. You're not deserve this. You're disgusting. Yeah. You're mogging yourself.
7:40You're wank-mogging yourself. Am I using that right? I'm having a conversation. Sorry? I'm having a conversation. Sorry, it's a dialogue. Of course, it's a dialogue. He believes every wank is a dialogue. It's not a monologue. You get to know yourself and you grow. With every single wank, you grow. So that's Gandhi's philosophy. With every wank, you grow. Gandhi believes that Indians could not choose to refuse service to the motherland, the empire. they had to contribute to the defense of the empire to legitimize their plight to then leave its rule. Kind of makes sense. But he's actively avoiding discussions of home rule with political parties.
8:16And all his focus is on the war effort. However, Gandhi concedes that he fails to recruit a single combatant. So again, when it's stuff like being a lawyer or actually trying to, you know, he's a bit shit. Like it's that thing we say in the last episode, he opens his mouth and it's like are you actually just a bit thick he's a silent guy he's a silent guy a strong silent type yep or rather a weak wankless he's kind of silent and annoying which is a kind of rare combination very rare it's loud and annoying right punchable face yeah a silent annoying man that's a rare yeah unique character they are rare but sometimes you see people on the street and you go fuck I don't know why but I fucking hate you I fucking hate you I'd like I'd cross the street to punch you yeah don't stare at me like that sorry nothing like I wouldn't piss yeah it's Beethoven's brother I wouldn't I wouldn't piss on you if you're on fire that's Gandhi after saying he's going to join the war effort yeah that's when he's going to use violence in the war nah that's Gandhi after he was like ask me where I was when my dad died fucking railing a 15 year old so guilty mate yeah I feel so ashamed about how much fucking pussy I was getting I feel so guilty nah so he tries to recruit for World War I and then we get to these two Satiragraha Champaran and Ahmedabad now is Champaran the name of that filthy novel my wife reads what's that that filthy fucking sex book that's got like a what's the sex girls what's the sex book called that all the women read with the fairies and all the bollocks Court of Thlearn Roses there's that one there's another one there's another there's another big Indian book that actually might not have anything to do with sex women are actually very similar to Gandhi go on in that they read horny fiction, but then you try it on.
10:07They go, what are you doing? I'm reading. I go, you're not reading. Come on. You're basically masturbating. You're asking for it. You're masturbating. I'm reading that in public on the tube, but I don't know you. You're asking for it. Yeah, they read horny books. Anyway, one of them might be called Champaran. No, I'm thinking of Santharam. Maybe it's not horny. I don't know. Women's fiction just remains a mystery to me. Fiction remains a mystery. Get me into the military history section of the Waterstones. It's not Mark Ramprakash, Charlie. I know who that is. Champaran Satgayara. Fucking whatever.
10:39Gandhi supports farmers who had started an uprising after they were being forced to grow indigo without payment. I don't think I can be your friend, Isabella said. Rebecca's stomach flipped. This is the love story of real hinge couple Isabella and Rebecca, written and read by me, Temby Denton-Hurst. Listen to the free audiobook now.
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15:45Yes. I mean, imagine COVID, where he's like, we're just going to pay you more to keep working. Anyway, the mill owners tried to remove the bonus after the plague, but then the workers tried to fight back. Blah, blah, blah. Gandhi protests, and he demands 35 % pay increase, only an eight-hour workday rather than a 15 one. That's work nonsense. Anyway, the mill owners don't respond. So Gandhi calls for a non-violent strike. 100 ,000 laborers picket the mill. The British administration gives in and offers the workers a pay rise. And so, again, Gandhi is showing that not listening pays dividends. For the Brits, this is going out of control.
16:27If you give the kids an inch, they'll take a mile. Discipline. Where's the discipline gone? In the house. So we get to the Roller Tacks of March 1919. This is discipline. this authorizes the imprisonment of anyone suspected of terrorism in india for two years without trial yeah okay straight to bed and if i think it's now suspicious if you're doing semen retention if i was the british empire i'd be like anyone who else is joining in this this quiet protest should be sectioned under the terrorism act yes because that's you cannot be that's gearing up for war if you're yeah why are you holding on to it yeah so you better get that out right let me have some at gunpoint i'll be making them all drain it out so that indians at their weakest because then the horniness is out but that's a bit like um the ira handing in all their weapons in the 90s isn't it i mean like a gun amnesty it's like get everyone just drain yeah drain drain milk yourself now yeah and they're too powerful otherwise i mean enoch powell called it the rivers of blood really it's the rivers of cum yeah it's draining out but then the life force of India draining with much cum the banks of the river the river but then what have you what have you Googled Charlie if all 8 billion people on earth moaned at the same time the sound would be would not be a singular deafening explosion but it would be exceptionally loud likely comparable to a heavy thunderstorm or a very noisy football stadium so it'd be like the new camp but everyone's coming right I wonder if a quiet moan if everyone did it would it have any sort of effect if it was just like oh Eight billion people going, but then you can only hear what's around you, can't you?
18:05Yeah. I mean, we'd probably hear... You'd hear it up north. What do you mean? What do you mean? You'd hear what up north? You'd hear it up north. Right. If everyone cared. You heard. I don't know. Anyway, so the roll attack. Listen, we're about to get to some good stuff. Yeah. Okay. Look, stay with me. Gandhi's being a prick in India. He's being snide. He's being, I'm actually, I'm not going to listen to you. I think I know better than you, all that stuff. Right. But then with the Roller-Tact, Gandhi realizes that Britain see Indians as a threat. And so he leads nationwide protests against it.
18:48And now we get to one of the defining boo-boos of the British Empire, the Amritsar Massacre, April 13th, 1919. Let's place this. This is a week before Hitler's 30th birthday. Oh, that's it. He probably was feeling quite like weird before a week before his 30th. Well, he's like, he's an adult, you know. God, am I ready to start adulting now? Should I, you know, I'm writing books in prison. Is this what I'm going to be doing? Yeah, exactly. Like all my kids, all my friends are having kids, getting married. What am I doing? You know, I can't even fucking, I can't even. It's like you just turned. so Hitler's Charlie's age yes Hitler is Charlie's age and Charlie you feel a big turn since 30 the way that people maybe perceive you maybe yeah I've got I've I've decided I want to make a change I want to I want to you don't seem to be making much of a change what change have you decided to make because you were on a massive bender all weekend yeah I mean I want to do more of that and yeah okay so putting the foot on the gas actually yeah I'm having a kind of a 30 man crisis right is that normal yeah I think so I mean Hitler It depends if you think it was a crisis or not.
19:58Or a moment of clarity.
20:02Yeah. A profound moment of clarity. Hitler just took some time to say. He shut up the noise and thought what was really going on. He cut through the crap and he just started. He went, you know what? I'm going to change things around here. It's dangerous. It's dangerous when they have moments of clarity and you hit 30. Isn't a creative, artistic guy like you? He was. And he also had a failed artistic career. Yeah. Of course. You've got an album on Spotify. How many monthly listeners do you have? Four. Have you got an album on Spotify? Yeah, it's called Sponsored Walk. Right. Is it poetry? Is it rapping?
20:33No, it's music. It's proper music, yeah. When did that go up there? That went off about three years ago. Wow. There's a Spanish song. So about the same time as you stopped throwing shit in the toilet from the shower, you released an album on Spotify? Yeah. I need to channel stuff differently. Yeah. Well, that makes a lot of sense. Please listen. You've got Express. Yeah. Do you want people to listen? I'd love that, yeah. Link it. How many tracks are there? Ten. Ten tracks. One of them's based on my experience at Pure Gym St. Paul's. That's the best one, I think. I'm Charlie from the site. Charlie from the site.
21:02Do you want to give us some lyrics? How you doing? Are you all right? My name is Charlie and I will not bite. How you doing? Are you all right? It's Charlie from the site, site, site. So what's going on upstairs? How are the cogs? Are they spinning like nobody's business? Or are they feeling a little slow, a bit rusty? Or maybe they're nice and calm, just right. See, the key, as far as I can tell, is to do things that make you feel like you're helping yourself. a general sense of progress of all forms of caution. Caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. So love yourself and love your companions.
21:33So this is where Hitler's sort of at. You know, he's transitioning from this failed career doing that. And now he's making a real turn into politics. He's writing a book. It's the same thing, isn't it? Hitler writes a book. Sponsor walk. Yeah, Mein Kampf. Mein Kampf. Sponsor walk. Anyway, look, The Amaritsar Massacre is in 1919. So to place this, it's a week of Hitler's 30th, but we've dealt with that. It is. It's after the Treaty of Versailles. Yes, that's only just happened. And this is before I completed Pokemon on Game Boy at Versailles Palace when I was an eight-year-old. Really? Yeah. School trip, took my Game Boy, nailed it.
22:19Did you finish it while you were in the palace? Yeah. So you were like, this French shit is boring as hell. Yeah, I was like, fuck this. I just completed Pokemon Game Boy. And I was fat. I was in France. And I obviously hated France. So I was like, fuck this. I got a Game Boy. Pokemon. You know, the visceral memories of just having the best time ever. On the Eurostar, it was like, was I eight? Maybe I was 10. Maybe I was 10, something like that. Playing Game Boy, I think it just does not get better. It does get better. Yeah. And then we arrived in France. I was like, I was right. It does not get better.
22:46It just gets worse. Yeah. god the game boys never the game was the best they were there was an innocence to the game that that felt like a kind of golden age of gaming because now it's just too hyper real you know it's always now it's insane it's too much you know you couldn't if you were playing game boy and you had a headset on and you were like screaming the n-word you know there wasn't license to do that you know you weren't being sort of insanely racist playing game boy by yourself um anyway so the the amritsar massacre is uh look it's it's sort of um it's bloody sunday for the indians in a way yeah for the the numbers are quite a bit bigger than the police well india's a bigger place it's proportionally it's bigger yeah so look there's thousands allegedly are gathered uh for a punjabi festival in a public garden in amritsar some doubt on those numbers though.
23:38Punjabi. It's not Punjabi MC Charlie before you ask. No Punjabi. No Punjabi. But yes Punjabi. That's quite serious what happens Charlie. Do you know what this is? No. No okay. The word massacre may maybe do some heavy lifting there. Didn't hear that. Didn't touch the sides. Okay. So thousands are gathered for a festival in a public garden in Amritsar. They are peacefully protesting the roll attack and the garden is crucially surrounded by high walls and there's one narrow exit which Brigadier General Reginald dyer a trustworthy man a trustworthy man uh a good man a friend of the pod he arrives a responsible man finally an adult's arrived he arrives with 50 troops first thing we're all blocked the exit and then without warning he just starts says open fire and they all start shooting until they run out of ammunition he was decisive he acted robustly indecisive i mean you've got to be able to make give it to him that was a decisive yeah sort of decision look at look at him look at this guy he He looks exactly how you think he would.
24:36A strong jaw, a big tash, not a hint of conscience on him. He sleeps like a baby. He falls asleep immediately. As soon as the day of the Amazard Massacre. Anyway, not that. Yeah. Yeah. He, yeah, so they just fire all the ammunition. To escape the bullets, people jumped into a well where they drowned or get crushed. Well, you can't blame him for that. No, that is shit. That's silly. Don't do that. That's dangerous. And that's a coincidence. You can't be taking responsibility for the well jumpers. No, look, some people were murdered. Some people just killed themselves by jumping into a well. Now, the Indian estimates say that 1 ,000 people died.
25:20Official figures, though, says that it was only 379 deaths. Yeah. And Ritz-A-Chorst deniers, basically. And Ritz-A-Chorst, yeah, exactly. Well, there's two sets of figures. You can choose which ones make more sense. to this day I don't believe the British government has ever apologised should we apologise as representatives yeah of the Amrit's I Massacre are we sorry are you sorry no one I no one I linked to was involved yeah so it's not our responsibility no not our circus not our monkeys that's my view on the Amrit's massacre not my circus not my monkeys Queen Elizabeth II and David Cameron expressed deep regret that's not an apology no did they regret how few people they killed I'm sorry that you took offence to our response how much do the Indians care about the Ritsa massacre is it big because that's one of the big as you're saying there was the they tried to kill they tried to kill the queen in 2021 someone who did an intruder broke into Windsor Castle in 2021 and citing the massacre as a motive for an attempted assassination of the queen so were they Indian or they just you'd hope so you'd hope so well when we talked about the irish having like four members of the band of colonial atrocities bloody sunday the famine cromwell india sort of have that and this is one of the pillars yes there was the jaipur uprising when that was there's the one that happened in 1857 jaipur jaipur one out yeah for all the people that died yeah uh there's a couple but we don't get told about them.
26:57So I don't really know. The five pillars of empire. The Amritsar massacre definitely does not come up ever in any sort of... No. No one brings it up. It's under here. It's under the rug. Keep that under there. General Reginald Dyer becomes known as the butcher of Amritsar and he enforces the... Which is very rude because butchers are untouchables, right? Yes. You know, the caste system, it's a deep, deep insult to call him a butcher. It's like saying he's a poo handler. Yeah. the sewage worker of amritsar uh he enforces the crawling order which means he makes indian men like snakes through a narrow street where a female british missionary had been assaulted he shows no remorse stating intended to produce a quote moral effect he was eventually censured is just no remorse no it's no remorse yeah i mean you're getting close to a mustache yeah doing this podcast no remorse no remorse no never back down never surrender i'd do it again i only stopped because i ran out of bullets fuck off he was eventually censored by a committee and he was hailed as a hero by the house of lords right well they raised a 26 000 pounds defense fund for him right well that's take me back to an age the defense fund you could gun down unarmed civilians and then the british government would start a go fund me for your legal defense he's a hero yeah that's a that's an empire man that is uh gandhi however uh i mean you can imagine what he thinks about this uh diarism is not the real seat of the disease only the symptom the real disease is the belief that the british can do no wrong so he's already losing his head he's losing his marbles at this point gandhi's gone cuckoo um now when's the thing that when's the thing that like a bomb in a they set fire to people don't they there's a that's that's vietnam right no no this is a day after the amritsar massacre also in the Punjab region, there's the Gurjanwala bombings.
28:55This is after the arrest of local leaders. There are protests that break out in Gurjanwala and they burn a railway station. And then the British send in three RAF planes and drop bombs and fire machine guns into the town. They drop a bomb at a school. And the British Secretary of State for India defended the use of planes, saying it was a military necessity to disperse bombs. But would you not agree that Britain has a right to defend itself? Britain has a right to exist, and a right to defend itself. Okay, I don't know why we only say Israel has that right. We all have that right to exist. We have a right to drop a bomb in a school.
29:35That is our right, enshrined in a constitution. Yeah. Are you anti-British? Are you being anti-Britic? Oh, so I don't have a right to exist. Oh, well thank you. I'm sorry that me taking up space offends you. Yeah, fattest.
29:52Yeah. Israel's essentially a really, really touchy fat woman. Saying, why should I pay for two? Oh, I'm sorry. Two airplane seats. Really? Oh, so I have to pay for two seats, do I? You're sitting on a five foot two man. He can't breathe. Yeah, yeah. Well, why aren't the seats bigger? Why isn't my plane bigger? For me. Anyway. Yeah, look. The Brits turn up the heat in India. after World War I because we've been busy actually. It's less of a laugh this bit I think. Yeah, no, it's not as funny. The Empire is getting less of a laugh. The golden days are over. After World War I it starts getting a bit...
30:27Raj Khor has ended. Yeah. Raj Khor you'd say is 1857 until... Maybe World War I? 1907, 1910. Yeah. The Indians are no longer listening to the men in big shorts telling them off. It's all falling apart. It's gone to shit. Okay. So the non-cooperation movement now begins we get into gandhi in the 20s he blames himself for the violence always going to make it about him um uh he says a bit pious it is a bit pious oh it was my fault yeah all right then send you to jail then let's let's let's yeah oh dad died because i wasn't there i was fucking i was fucking getting what were you doing during the amritsa massacre oh fucking railing a 15 year old gandhi a 40 at this point that's not cool that's not cool i'm just pregnant yeah you know what gandhi was like um so he blames himself for the violence because he had called for protests and he goes i have made a himalayan blunder it's like the himalayans off yeah leave them out of it i've also had several himalayan blunders actually um your piles no no it's me ordering a file when i'm i think i'll handle it it's a it's that's when i'm my most toxic masculine is me in a curry house going fuck it watch me and then i just it's just no collapse collapse the next morning i'm just on the toilet hugging it not worth it someone going through internet search history wife going through internet search history sweat just yeah it's uh it's that photo of the guy from Chernobyl.
32:01My wife goes to my internet search history. No.
32:08Because I haven't got a skin, you know. If you're going through my search history, I've not got a skin. So he says, I've made a Himalayan blunder in calling upon the people to embark upon civil disobedience before they had qualified themselves for it. So he's being quite patronizing to his own people there, I suppose. but the Punjab atrocities become the primary justification for Gandhi's first massive movement non-cooperation he says cooperation with the government is a sin terrorist he's a terrorist Mahatma bin Laden so he by the way having joined the Indian National Congress is full of like educated Oxbridge British people right and he is the one that sort of turns it into a mass movement he's sort of Corbyn okay yeah So he convinces the Congress that swaraj or self-rule is the only path forward.
33:01So he then organizes a mass movement that boycotts British goods. This is one of the big parts of his holy rules, right? His nine rules for life. Be good, don't steal, love your mother, boycott imported goods from Britain. Don't cum. When your dad's dying, don't fucking rail a 15-year-old. By the way, do you remember I did that? But I did do that though. I did that. I was sick. um don't eat only each only eat cheese uh whatever else is anyway uh mass non-violent strikes only purchase indian goods see look he's a national socialist in a way i'm listening i'm listening there's a level of they've got the same symbol do they not yes so the practice of self-reliance through production uh this starts to get quite costly for the british english businesses would buy raw cotton cheaply from india then process it in the uk and sell it back to india at an inflated price lovely stuff terrific business smart brilliant but this stops entirely it's a shame
34:03textile boycott really is this where we are it's all pretty grim this stuff yeah this stuff is very but this is all this is the problem with gandhi is that what he's known for is very very very very dull he's just fucking walking and yeah he's indian lenin oh now as you said the current indian government friend of the pod nyan dr modi is a hindu nationalist yep uh and it's the this we're in the age of the strong man yes yes so especially if you're leading a country as big as india you can't be it is i guess the 2010s it was like we should all be like jacinda arden yes and it's all about like the real leader is being oh no you actually can't have a baby and be a prime minister oh no I can't yeah of a country that small yeah but did she quit yeah couldn't even do that try being a fucking prime minister of an actual country and having a baby there's that great Carl Donnelly bit about like you know everyone says how great a job she's doing compared to Boris Johnson but to be fair they're very different jobs 4 million are the loveliest people in the world compared to 70 million cunts they're different jobs yeah of course you can be nice in new zealand yeah it's like it's the same people with people who have like kids but they have like three paid nannies like god yeah i don't know what everyone complains about yes you've got three paid nannies we've got some of the worst people on earth yeah we're a nation of cunts she just seen she had very much the substitute teacher you can make cry energy yes i think that's a peacetime uh luxury i mean i made a lot of substitute teachers cry or teaching assistants teaching assistants french teaching assistants yeah they have one day and it's like 20 minutes french teaching assistant who had who had cartoon cross eyes and i just could not resist what were you doing whenever she turned her back i'd be like like that and it was killing yeah and then she'd look at me and i go we all used to look over our heads when she was looking at us like and there's just a window behind oh you're talking to the window and um yeah she she hated it yeah sounds quite tough for her yeah well if i can get out the kitchen you can't stand that hate you're teaching it a fucking boys school teaching snotty little 15 year olds french call her out down the barrel i can't remember your name i can remember your eyes though and they were clapped and i'd do it again if i saw you i'd look at i go oh where If you win a BAFTA, I think you should use your speech to slag off the subject.
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38:44it's not even that you didn't believe in me actually you're very encouraging but you did have cross eyes yeah i don't even remember you you cry again thanks to the academy no i've been the i've been the audience going cross-eyed cross-eyed cross-eyed while someone was getting a reward for something i don't know and then someone would lose their job but yes anyway gandy um i guess if he'd been born in the 2010s would be non-binary or non-bindery i guess um non-bargery uh he was he was non-onion bargery
39:30shocking shocking
39:41yeah gender neutral awful shocking right yeah um
39:51i think he felt like uh gender was a performance uh and that he was he was sort of fluid he was going between both he frequently described himself as being a half a woman uh and he had something that was known as vulva envy. Christ. Which you don't hear about often. No. Because penis envy, which all women have. Famously. And the reason why women are so upset and angry all the time is because they're livid. They drew the very short straw of having a clitoris as opposed to a big penis. Is there a shorter straw? Oh, it's a fucking clit. Oh, brilliant. Right. I've got a hole. Oh, and you've got a massive big cock deal.
40:28You've got a big hose. I've got a hole. Yeah. so it's a rare thing to have the vulva envy well this is i suppose is the um uh not the oedipus complex what was the other one called not the oedipum complex what's the electro complex which is the off the the the rare cousin of the oedipus complex so uh yeah so vulva envy uh which means that what he wants to what does that even how's that manifest experiments with Brahamachara, celibacy, and Achamisa. Hamza. Hamza. No. Hamza. He was trying to adopt what he considered feminine virtues. Patience, gentleness, and self-sacrifice. And now I guess what's quite funny is I guess at school we learnt like Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King, suffragettes.
41:17These were actually such a huge part of our moral education. Not my school. We probably weren't listening. You were saying, Oi, cross eyes. Where are you looking? Where are you looking, love? What's going on over there? What is it, Charlie? Do you never get like any sense of vulvar envy at all? Like even like half an hour's worth of, it would be nice to be a girl for like - Half an hour? It'd be nice to be a girl for a bit sometimes. What, a whole episode of Friends? You're thinking I'd like to have a pum pum? I think sometimes it would be really nice. I don't know. Just to escape this. No. I wouldn't mind having giant cannons.
41:52Yeah, I'd like some absolute numbers just to sort of fill it with. I get nunga nunga envy. but i do not get no i've got an ass i don't want another hole down i mean the ass is bad enough yeah and the cock is silly and funny yeah but the vagina is a you know you've got an ass and then i've also got like the footwell of my car to keep clean there's just so many things to get clean your eyes closed like you're singing a ballad when you did that bit the ass the mouth the ears the nose the footwell of my car you know there's the there's the porch there's so many like you've got enough dirty holes cavities rancid cavities yeah i don't need another one but do you sometimes envy the vulva yeah i just sometimes i feel that it would be nice to have one why just because it's being a man is is like just like i think it's harder to keep yourself clean as a man i think it's easier to actually be a clean woman i think the man's body is automatically more grim yeah I guess so it's like the man's ass there is just something really awful yeah but that's this is different okay fine sometimes maybe I wouldn't mind a woman's ass I wouldn't mind switching out my asses I'd like to swap gut biomes with them yes but that's different Jennifer Aniston yeah or whatever sure I I sometimes envy the inherent cleanliness of some women but I tell you what you could just not eat dog food couldn't you you could just stop eating dog food he's a slave to his gender you know that's you know Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't be doing it.
43:21You fight a masculine into your prison. I don't want to do this. You get women dogs. Yeah, that's true. No, I think if I was a woman, I wouldn't be eating dog food. But that would solve a lot. But you're the most non-binary of the three of us. I'm not saying much. Yeah. Because you've got a bit of the Gandhi about you. You've got a shaved head. You've got a charm as well. You've got a kind of shamanistic charm that belies your filth. By the way, we were talking about who would be the most, like what would we look like. I think you would be quite a nice looking lady. Do we talk about this in the pod?
43:50Charlie, we've talked about this about eight times. And every time you just keep going on about how sexy Finn will be, how he's like Rachel Weisz. And then you look at me with such horror. You look at me and you just go so deeply disgust. And I'm just sitting here. I don't start any of these conversations. You out of nowhere will go, you'd be so fit as a woman and you'd be absolutely horrendous. Yeah, you'd be so tall and lanky and gangly. Disgusting. And you play netball and no one will pass to you because you're so ugly. I'm just, nothing I can do. sitting duck you'd be a sad lady yeah i'm sure i would so gandhi gandhi yes gandhi uh is trying to be more feminine which i think to bring myself back to the original point is not what modi is trying to do there's another guy so that they're now finding all these other leaders who are like the kind of ira at the time of india independence and they're now getting their moment in the sun well the forgot his name is uh bosa who boselector not boselector
44:47no um no uh bosa who uh is a hindu nationalist who assassinates uh gandhi yeah he there's now there's now he's a national hero really even though gandhi's on the money truthers there's both the truthers there's both selected truthers but they're putting statues of him up because he was a masculine because they they think that which we'll get to the next step of gandhi's whole problem is that he wasn't violent enough yeah and it would have happened and also i think there's a lot of um i guess with the indian self-image there's a lot of uh frustration at the idea that maybe not seen as masculine as other cultures and they're trying to change that and they think maybe you know that's pretty masculine well that's what i mean yeah it's also quite it's quite needy yeah i wouldn't say you're um controlling your urges the stereotype there's the stereotype there's not many pop culture stereotypes of the alpha indian you know no although bollywood's a different for example israel they did a massive image change right yeah and they're like oh shucks yeah yeah it's now now it's like oh but yeah we've talked about this thing ripped woody allen like well yeah you've got you fucking want some you've gone from the the camps and the emaciated I'm going to show you shucks.
46:06Exactly. I'm going to show you shucks. That's what the great Israel pivot is in the 60s. But look, he wasn't just maybe gen neutral before his time. Gandhi also, in 1918, whilst in Ahmedabad, he had a severe attack of dysentery, which, you know, I mean, he's Indian. How do you know what's severe and what's just Tuesday? If everything is in bold, nothing's in bold. Yeah. diarrhea is our lifeblood so when do I know if I've got a problem right but he and this pains me to say in 1919 as a result of severe constipation his piles are operated on so now you've been in the mists this whole story you have nothing to hold on to with the Gandhi story but now you can empathize with him through his ass you now understand he was a civil rights activist for piles he's Rosa Piles for your community Martin Luther Piles he's my activist he's my yeah finally Nelson Paldella finally someone is speaking my language there's someone fighting for my cause a peaceful man of piles the way to conquer piles is with non-violence I'm not going to cooperate yeah you have to be like your piles yes because if you treat them violently they'll be worse they will be much worse yeah and there's a moral purity to my stance I'm not dealing with them Is your stance uncomfortable sitting down?
47:34Yes, very comfortable. It's what you shouldn't do, but I'm doing it anyway. I'm not listening to my piles. But he has, similar to his lifelong obsession with semen retention, sex, all this sort of stuff, he's obsessed with digestion tracks. He has this awful attack of dysentery in 1918. Obviously, he has a lot of piles, but even throughout his life, he's just become... Sweep that under the carpet. What? Piles defined Gandhi's life. Yeah, sorry. it was a it was a big 1919 wasn't he wasn't wasn't defined by them ritzer massacre no he was defined by his piles operation yeah which is another massacre but he's a serious fiber maxer arse for arse ritzer massacre which um i mean i guess partly his dad dying of the anal fistula that must be play a big part into his weird kind of psychosexual view about bowel movements of course but he was like he was obsessed with the digestive health and bowel movements viewing them as central to his spiritual discipline and physical purity.
48:30And now I guess... You're quite like this. I aspire to be like this, but I fail. Right. You know, he's someone who managed to succeed in his spiritual purity. I am filled with shame. I do definitely think there's something conquering the gut and the digestive tract. I do think you unlock a new... I imagine. The second brain. Imagine conquering the digestive tract. I mean, also the idea... I do sometimes fantasise about what it must feel like to be entirely empty, because I don't think you ever are empty. No. But Gandhi probably was the closest to be completely empty. He looked empty. Yeah. It looked like someone had sucked everything out of him.
49:07Yeah. But he got into enemas, didn't he? Yeah, he was obsessed with constantly giving himself enemas. He'd sometimes make some of his female assistants give him enemas. He'd spend three hours in the toilet. That's pretty cool. He developed a habit of taking an animal daily to manage chronic constipation. Now, he only eats nuts, so I don't know if that's playing to do with his... He eats nuts? That's all he eats? That's all he eats. Right, so he's not vegetarian then. He's just a nutarian or whatever. He's just eating nuts? Pretty much. So he's not nutting and he's eating nuts? Yeah. That's the Gandhi story?
49:37Yeah. He spent 20 minutes twice daily on the toilet to ensure strict, consistent bowel movements. So this is all going... Charlie, why are you getting disgusted? Just imagine him on that. Fucking grim. But he's doing all of this alongside being a civil rights activist and doing this stuff, alongside all this boring stuff, he's also got this rigid fucking Mark Wahlberg-esque routine about his bowel movements. So he enjoys women giving him enemas. And it's like, at this point, are you not cheating? If you're having a woman squirt water at your ass, can you still brag about how sexually disciplined you are?
50:17Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure I would be able to not wank if I had a team of women shoved up my arse. I don't know if I would be able to not wear. If women are ploughing water up my arse and I'd be told not to masturbate, impossible. I mean, I don't think it's a great advert for semen retention in the sense of how weird he is. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I just think it's... It's actually kind of an advert for like, get that shit out of you. Get out of it, yeah. If you're spending three hours a day on the toilet, you're like writing in your notebook all your bowel movements. I mean, this is crazy. It's like, this is the Indian Martin Luther King and he's spending the whole time talking about not coming and being on the toilet but interestingly it seems like in the 1930s his his bowels he reached a good zen-like state with his bowels flow state yeah because he was severely constipated for the entire 1910s now with when our life stories get written in the historical document yes i would be interested how many people's constipation health is being told via the decades that's true the 1910s that's the year of constipation constipated a decade epoch of constipation yes um i don't know how many other historical figures have this sort of date well he talked about one of the volumes my autobiography would be called the diarrhea years yeah when was that i can't remember but um yes me and my me and my 20s yeah So he does sort of conquer his bowels.
51:43During the salt march, which we haven't gotten to yet. We'll get to shortly. So let's just briefly deal with the civil disobedience movement of 1929. The partition of India is being proposed by the Muslim nationalists, Muslim Indians, and some Hindu. but gandhi is firmly in the camp that muslims and hindus can uh live together and um you know it's just different types of animals it's just cattle and pigs yeah you know what's a cow i have a dream sort of stuff this is what's a cow and a pig between mates yeah i think who's the cow well the cows are holy to hindus right you know yeah so the the indian national congress expresses a willingness to withhold taxes until their sovereignty is granted.
52:36It's all about withholding. Everything's withholding. Withholding come. Yeah. I can't poo. I'm not going to pay tax. Constipation is so Gandhi. Yeah. He was constipated for 10 years. Fucking hell. He's the most bricked up guy of all time. So now the defining moment of his Indian activism, you'd say, is the Salt March of 1930. So this is the Selma, this is the Birmingham March. Yeah. and again because it's boring it's the salt mark the march for salt so uh basically uh indians weren't allowed to grow or make their own salt even though there's fucking loads of salt boring uh salt was really important for indians it's a hot country boring and i guess they had to preserve meats and stuff yeah uh also although having said that so the brits would tax uh they They had to buy salt off the Brits as a way of making tax revenue.
53:308.2 % of the British Raj tax revenue was from salt. But let's think about how delicious and flavorful Indian food is. Right. If they weren't allowed to use salt, they had to find other flavors. Yeah, so that's the reason why hot countries have spicy cuisine, right? It's because they can't keep meat. Because meat's got spoiled quicker, right? so it's basically the reason why there's curry is that this is absolute dog sheep shit meat and we have to do backflips with your taste buds to make you not realize or they couldn't always salt was too expensive so they were like well let's use cumin turmeric ginger yeah you know and suddenly the the indian food is born so you know who's the real bad guy here blues music came out of slavery yes exactly win win everybody's happy everybody's everyone's a winner babe anyway um so britain had a monopoly over salt in india so indians were subject to these very harsh price increases that were completely out of their control and if you were poor you really needed salt because it was like the only thing that made the crap food taste bearable um so uh gandhi takes this idea that they're going he's going to march to the salt flats and he's just going to start eating it or whatever uh and the congress laugh at him but he wins them round to the idea and the viceroy of India at the time Lord Urban remarks that the prospect of a salt campaign does not keep me awake at night so the Brits were kind of thinking they were thinking who's this fucking silly bloke this guy's just constipated he's just mad constipated he's a mad constipated sex freak so Gandhi decides to march for how long is it 2 ,000 miles it's a 385 kilometre march 24 days where he and 78 associates were protesting the salt monopoly but if I was and I was the British I was the British shall I be like alright then fine sure you can't have any pepper though yeah no I would just be like so yeah brilliant you marched we just walked for 24 days alright man yeah and salt costs a tenner yeah so he starts from his uh ashram uh which is sort of sent his base to the coastal village of dandy and then people start dandy gandy uh they join along and the procession becomes three kilometers long and there are crowds on the side welcoming him to each village it's like it's like a sort of marathon i suppose um but this is where uh it's the age of photojournalism now so americans are going over to to cover it and the new york times feature him on the front cover time magazine making man of the year 1930 so he's the greater of the age yeah um uh so on the 4th of may 1930 he reaches the uh salt mud and he picks it up and he declares with this i'm shaking the foundations of the british empire and he then starts producing salt illegally and orders his to join him and then the mass civil civil disobedience follows uh salt becomes this mass-produced good outside of British control and over 60 ,000 Indians are arrested by the end of May but it becomes a sort of national ideology now of civil disobedience and so people start refusing to pay their taxes they boycott British goods there is a massacre of non-violent protesters in a bazaar where many of the guilty British platoon receive life sentences so suddenly this becomes a global news story civil disobedience and Gandhi becomes his household name.
57:13What does Churchill call Gandhi? The Hindu Mussolini. That's nice. Yes. Yeah, quite right. So in 1931, Gandhi signs the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, which frees all political prisoners from the Salt March in return for an end to civil disobedience. It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. It's 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 vice regal palace to parly on equal terms with the representative of the king emperor yeah quite robust dismissal of gandhi from churchill so he then tries to he then also says something like he has to uh he starts basically saying i'm the guy fall has never looked or tasted this good sweet greens fall harvest menu is back with seasonal favorites dressed to impress and made to be devoured warm roasted sweet potatoes crisp apples maple glazed Brussels, and crave-worthy flavors in the autumn harvest bowl, maple glazed salmon plate, and roasted bacon Brussels side.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Train Scum
07:26 - No Petitions
11:01 - Me Less Fat
14:11 - FleshLightSaber
20:20 - Randy gandhi
22:46 - Send Bobs
24:40 - Tax The Huts
28:25 - This Is Your Hero?
35:37 - Gandhi’s Wet Dreams
40:31 - Charlie’s Experiment
45:56 - 1p Pint
48:13 - Professionally Annoying
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