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Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is more than a political text. It is an ontological drama staged by Gandhi, reflected in his treatises against "modern civilisation", and his critique of "modernity". |
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The controversy between Gandhiji and Savarakar is not restricted only to the issue of violence and nonviolence. Other issues dealt with by Gandhiji in HS such as the relation between the end and means, Italy and Mazzini as the model for the freedom struggle, relation between Hindus and Muslims are also the issues on which both of them had serious disagreement. And most importantly perhaps they fundamentally differed on the evaluation of the modern civilization which was almost taken to be one with the western civilization. It is well known that Savarakar was a staunch supporter of the western modernity of which science is the soul. Gandhiji on the other hand was very much critical of it. HS itself presents a critique of modern western civilization.
The Birth of Hind Swaraj by Prof. Sadanand More,
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We were travelling across Arkavathi river cascades for 8 days and experienced the same thing " eyes watering and throat getting parched. Across the basin we found the deserted traditional utensils that were used and worshipped during the bygone days of subsistence economy with diverse skills on water sharing, soil fertilizing methods and so on. The communities seem to be thinking that there is a solution out there; they think that there will be some thing invented to fill the parched tanks across the river. The erratic development process of 50 years had corrupted the fertility and innovation of human psyche.Farmers are getting estranged with the very land where their ancestors are burried and where they belong to.The condition of the sense of belongingness of rural communities really pains;erratic development path is responsible for this. L.C.Nagaraj, SVARAJ, Bangalore-560003 |
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Conversation between an activist and constructivist
a note on people’s industries for Jan Vikas Andolan by Uzramma
Activist: Friend, don’t you agree that the need of the hour is the struggle for people’s access to resources, to their own forest and rivers which are so rapidly being degraded and appropriated for the peoples of a few?
Constructivist: Indeed these are burning issues, and need to be changed at many points. How are our common resources to be put to good use, so that nature is a partner in our enterprises, forever giving of her bounty, rather than seen as a series of mines, to be exploited and abandoned. How can people get their livelihood and support themselves without damage to the environment.
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Politics, Experience and Cognitive Enslavement: Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
by Vivek Dhareshwar, Economic & Political Weekly, 20 Mar 2010.
Although Gandhi never explicitly addresses “modern politics" in Hind Swaraj, one can say that it is a legitimate question to ask how he would have viewed it, given what he says about medicine, law nationalism, and so forth. Rejecting as incoherent the view that sees M K Gandhi as offering a critique of modernity, one can argue that Gandhi's critical view of domains such as law and medicine and his understanding of his own political activity emerge out of his understanding of his own political activity emerge out of his deep philisophical concern with both removing or resisting experience-occluding structures and creating sites of ethical learning hospitable to preserving the integrity of experience. |
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A century of Gandhian economics
by Samanth Subramanian, Mint, Oct 1 2009
Those who continue to champion Gandhian economics insist that his ideas bear relevance even--or especially--today, some compromises to the modern era notwithstanding
A hundred Dussehras ago, over a celebratory dinner at a London restaurant called Nazimuddin’s, Mahatma Gandhi sat and listened to a speech from V.D. Savarkar, the star pupil in what he called “the Indian school of violence”. The echoes of that speech rang so persistently in Gandhi’s ears that, when he sailed for South Africa a few days later, he reacted by writing Hind Swaraj, a slim exposition of his various philosophies, all of which would become immensely familiar in India over the next four decades.
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