What is the basis of Gandhi's critique of "Western Civilization" in his book Indian Home Rule, and how does he link this critique to an argument...

Gandhi's critique of the British is grounded in opposition to many aspects of British life, government, and rule over India.

First, Gandhi is strongly opposed to modernity and many aspects of modern industrial production. He sees modernity of the sort associated with Europe and the West as crudely materialist and harmful to the dignity of labor in the way it exploits workers. He advocates an austere spiritual tradition which renounces wealth and accumulation of material...

Gandhi's critique of the British is grounded in opposition to many aspects of British life, government, and rule over India.

First, Gandhi is strongly opposed to modernity and many aspects of modern industrial production. He sees modernity of the sort associated with Europe and the West as crudely materialist and harmful to the dignity of labor in the way it exploits workers. He advocates an austere spiritual tradition which renounces wealth and accumulation of material goods. He sees that Home Rule would enable India to forge its own path in thinking about modernity rather than having a western model imposed upon it and being subject to economic exploitation by the British. He argues that many of the modern "improvements" to India have resulted in poverty and erosion of community rather than the wealth Britain claimed they would bring.

Although Gandhi saw Jesus Christ as an admirable figure, he thought that Christianity as a religion supported such horrors as apartheid. He sees British rule as imposing Christianity on India and argues that India is by nature Hindu and that Home Rule would lead to a resurgence of Hindu spirituality in daily life and as an informing ethical principle for government. 

Finally, Gandhi argues that Parliamentary democracy is ineffective and that Indian Home Rule should not be a shadow of a bad British system but rather the creation of a superior form of government which would be self-regulating and based on enlightened self-rule, in which people's own spiritual progress would do away with the need for a large government. He saw the British ideological traditions as an obstacle to this.