After 49 posts you are asking this question ? Pls read the earlier posts again.
Gandhi did not become "Mahatma" for the time he spent in SA or for what he said or did there. He became known as "Mahatma" for what he learnt in SA and how he applied it in his life post SA.
Its not a very difficult concept to understand. Try it !!
Hindu extremists made him mahatma shehzaday not those about whom Gandhi thought were the scum of the earth.
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