images of ghandi

one of the most striking things i've seen in the novels that we've read is the portrayl of ghandi within islamic litterature. in "twilight in dehli" mir nehal scoffs at the new ranks of men who follow the path of disruption, recalling images of those men that threw themselves on their foes with no thought to safety but only wishing to die fighting. in this same vein chugti's shaman reflects on the people making Ghandi into more than a man, those people that choose to worship him as some type of diety. from a westerners perspective this is striking because [while i'm no scholar of ghandi's life] we are tought that he was one of the most influential leaders in the last century. "TIME" even debated wether the man of the century should be Ghandi or Hitler, as the man that was most influential throughout the last hundred years. while obviously the people of india were behind him it seems those that wrote about these times [many english taught, as ghandi himself was] have an underlying problem with his methods, or at least the blind following he received from those following him. i'm just curious as to why this is.