In response, Gandhi wrote an editorial in ‘Young India’, calling the revolutionary “a misguided and

therefore, dangerous patriot”. He added: “It sounds very pleasant and exciting to talk of the
descendants of Shivaji, Ranjit, Pratap and Govind Singh. But is it true? Are we all descendants of
these heroes in the sense in which the writer understands it? We are their countrymen, but their
descendants are the military classes.”