"Since its appearance the Bhagavad-Gita has been repeatedly invoked to fight against the forces of revolution. If Shankaracharya sought its assistance in the ninth century A.C. to deal a death blow to declining Buddhism, Mahatma Gandhi utilised its teachings to annihilate the rising tide of secular democracy. This is true even though Shankara was dubbed as a crypto-Buddhist and Gandhi acclaimed as the champion of democratic freedom." – Prem Nath Bazaz, _The Role of the Bhagavad-Gita in Indian History_ (1975)