RE321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hind Swaraj Or Indian Home Rule, Swaraj, Sarvodaya
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Re321 lesson 12: course summary and evaluation of gandhi. Here they are: the condition of the most disadvantaged in the land [principle of sarvodaya] and the ability of the people to resist authority when it is abused [principle of satyagraha]. His thinking on violence and nonviolence shows itself in both criteria. The disadvantaged are those against whom violence is being done the structural violence endemic in unjust societies. Non-cooperation movement of 1920-1922: on other occasions, his satyagraha campaigns had some limited success on a national scale, sarvodaya. Harijan: through using himself as a book , a symbol of swaraj. India (for gandhi, a failure: during 1940s gandhi tended to feel he had failed more generally to create true swaraj. India was free, but it was religiously divided. India was opening itself to the use of violence while eschewing social and economic equality.
