He used symbols in order to mobilise the masses against both colonial and local configurations of power. However, Gandhi’s symbolic acts acquired significance primarily in the colonial configuration of power and not so much in the local configuration. Gandhi’s symbolism did not generate negative consciousness among the masses. In his frame of moral economy, Gandhi ontologically links himself with the cultural and material world of the peasantry. Gandhi’s symbolism thus becomes radical, not against Manu, but against the market that induces in a person a ceaseless desire for material goods.