Re: Gandhi on hindu - Caste System
This seems like a really old thread. I hope OP is still around. The claims are similar to claims some people in the US make about Abraham Lincoln - that he was actually a racist.
Frankly, even if there is a reference to some book published in 1992, I doubt the authenticity of the Gandhi quote. Gandhi if anything was a very smart man, he would not have failed to see that the very fact that the caste system was hereditary was what made it so wrong.
If Hinduism would have disintegrated without a hereditary caste system, then it deserved to do so. There is nothing wrong with dividing society into occupations as long as no one is considered inferior and it is possible to move from one occupation to another just by personal hard work. But making it impossible to change occupations and even making people into outcastes or untouchable cannot be good for any society, and Gandhi definitely recognized that.