RE321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sarvodaya, Shudra, Swaraj
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Re321 lesson 8: sarvodaya and the constructive program, continued: tackling the religious. British rule: during this time, gandhi also pursued his career of sarvodaya (constructive program), on the other hand. In this lecture, we travel back to 1920-1948 to see in detail how gandhi pursued sarvodaya. If you"re not hindu, or perhaps even if you are hindu, it might be hard to understand how such a system should be normative. In other words, these individuals are literally untouchable : origins: very old, unclear, normative for centuries, have been prominent figures, including the 11th century philosopher ramanuja and the. If each person can perform the vocations associated with his or her caste, then (s)he will benefit the larger community and nation. Purity: gandhi never believed that castes should entail distinctions in purity, a caste should denote strictly a vocation, everybody has innate purity and the potential to purify him or herself in the quest for truth.
