Edited sentence: " It also alleges that he was quoted as stating in  Bombay in 1896 saying that Europeans sought to degrade Indians to the level of the "raw kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness"."Forced to share a cell with black people, he wrote: "Many of the native prisoners are only one degree removed from the animal and often created rows and fought among themselves.A 2003 article in the Guardian alleges that Gandhi wrote the following unsourced comment:,