Gujarati Philosophy, આ પુસ્તકમાં ખેતી, ગ્રામોદ્યોગ, પશુપાલન, વાહનવ્યવહાર, પાયાની કેળવણી, આરોગ્ય અને સ્વછતા વગેરે ગ્રામજીવનની વિવિધ બાબતો પર ગાંધીજીના વિચારોનો સમાવેશ થયો છે. Time and again, he observed “India’s soul lives in the village”, He wanted that power structure should begin from the below. The outmigration of manual workers from resource-constrained regions and states to more industrialized state and cities got institutionalized. [CWMG 71: 238] It was published in the Indian Opinion in Natal and was soon banned by the Government in India because it contained 'matter declared to be seditious'. [M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj. Many current government programs such as rural livelihood mission, skill-development program, mudra yojana and initiatives like ‘Make in India’ can very well supplement strengthening of village centric economy. With more than 350 thousand deaths and more than 5 million infected in just five months, the COVID pandemic has shaken humanity like none of its predecessors in recent past. //--> to our website since 2013. Some of them could return to their home but most of them got stranded. The focus is on political decentralisation. Swaraj lays stress on governance not by a hierarchical government, but self governance through individuals and community building. Developed and maintain by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal | Sitemap, You are visitor no. And in its fullest sense, Swaraj is much more than freedom from all restraints, it is self-rule, self-restraint, and could be equated with moksha or salvation. Gujarati PDF 0000001310 00000 n He called the state a "soulless machine" which, ultimately, does the greatest harm to mankind. 0000124073 00000 n 30 0 obj<> endobj Chap. xref It was the centerpiece of his vision of economic development in India. As stated by Gandhi himself: "I wrote the entire Hind Swaraj for my dear friend Dr. Pranjivan Mehta. Gandhiji’s Gram Swaraj was not the reconstruction of the old village but the formation of fresh independent units of villages having self-sufficient economy. The rapid growth supported skewed industrialization with the majority of the industries getting concentrated in and around large cities in the economically advantaged state. This subaltern approach of Gandhi made his Gram Swaraj view very strong. In India, the spread of virus augmented during mid-March this year. What we want to do should be done, not because we object to the English or because we want to retaliate but because it is our duty to do so.”. To gain maximum economic benefit, they are compelled to live at a bare minimum standard to manage the cost of living and save effectively to financially support their family back in their villages. Appendix I lists twenty references for further reading, including six by Tolstoy, two by Thoreau, two by Ruskin, one by Plato (Defence and Death of Socrates), and one by Mazzini (Duties of Man), and one each by Dadabhai Navroji, and R. C. Dutt on the economic condition of colonial India. Even the basic sanitation facilities are not available to all across India. 0000002743 00000 n [13], Gandhi was undaunted by the task of implementing such a utopian vision in India. There is a substantial inequity in terms of health and development progress among the rural population. Two major nonviolent movements for socio-economic and political revolution in India: the Bhoodan movement led by Vinoba Bhave and the Total Revolution movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan were actually formed under the aegis of the ideas of Swaraj. What are the opportunities in disguise for them? According to the census, only. In fact, seen only in parts, Gandhi's position in Hind Swaraj might seem old-fashioned, traditionalist, eccentric, even. 0000123809 00000 n Want to Read saving…. Enlarge cover. <<0ec2d00489be2046a208b1429bb1fca3>]>> He rules himself in such a manner that he is never a hindrance to his neighbour. He can be reached at vrkeshri@gmail.com and tweets @docVRK, Subodh S Gupta is Professor and Head, Department of Community Medicine at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram, Wardha. For the first time this volume presents the 1910 text of Hind Swaraj and includes Gandhi's own Preface and Foreword (not found in other editions) and annotations by the editor. trailer "[10] This philosophy rests inside an individual who has to learn to be master of his own self and spreads upwards to the level of his community which must be dependent only on itself. So, their major concern and activities hover only around work and employment. 0000124238 00000 n Gandhi said: "Power resides in the people, they can use it at any time. First, an important opportunity is the availability of a high proportion of hard-working and progressive human resources in the recipient states and areas. But it will be an oceanic circle whose center will be the individual. વિચાર સામગ્રી પૂરી પાડશે. Fourth and most importantly, this crisis should warrant a call to revisit and renew focus on ‘Gram Swaraj’, a concept given by the father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi.