We had an Indian player on our tennis team in college for a couple years. His name was Davi (pron. DAH-vee). He absolutely hated niggers. We used to hang out and I considered him a friend.
He was from an elite family (something about the "Caste System"). He was pretty good on the court, but was more of a serve-and-volley player a la John McEnroe. By then, tennis had morphed into more of a power, bang-away-from-the-baseline game. He was a well-known cricket player in his home province. That's kind of the way he played tennis -- lots of double-handed backhands. Great cross court volleyer!
Anyway, I digress... When I was 18 (he was a couple years ahead of me), and we were in the middle of the Rodney King nigger riots, he drove me somewhere in his little rice rocket car and was flipping off niggers on the sidewalks
He was light-skinned (he actually looked a lot like a young Freddie Mercury with normal teeth), but would get very dark in the sun. He told me once that he hated when he was dark because people might mistake him for a nigger.
Again, when he spoke of "his people", I think he was referring to his "caste", but he told me numerous times that "his people" hated niggers. I got the impression that sentiment wasn't exclusive to his group.
When I heard this report about Gandhi, I was not surprised at all. I immediately thought about Davi and remembered how much that Indian kid hated niggers too!