India of My DreamsA book, which places before the reader not only those basic and fundamental principles, but also indicates how we can help to fulfill them through our freedom by establishing a polity and social life, and through the instrumentality of a constitution and the dedication of the human material which this vast country will now throw up to work without any external fetters or internal inhibitions, will be welcomed by all. Shri R. K. Prabhu has proved his skill in making a selection of the most telling and significant passage from Mahatma Gandhi’s writings and have no doubt that this volume will be a useful addition to the literature on the subject. |
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And people who obtain rights as a result of performance of duty, exercise them only for the service of society, never for themselves. Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
And people who obtain rights as a result of performance of duty, exercise them only for the service of society, never for themselves. Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
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Impure means result in an impure end. Hence the prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head, nor can the process of cutting off equalize the employer and the employed. One cannot reach truth by ...
Impure means result in an impure end. Hence the prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head, nor can the process of cutting off equalize the employer and the employed. One cannot reach truth by ...
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The result is that although the labourers get an increment there is no improvement in the work turned out. The relations between the two parties are not purified and the labourers do not make proper use of the increment they get.
The result is that although the labourers get an increment there is no improvement in the work turned out. The relations between the two parties are not purified and the labourers do not make proper use of the increment they get.
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We eat honey and kill the honey-bee, with the result that honey is such a rare commodity today that it is only available to a 'Mahatma' like me or to those who must have it from the physician as a vehicle for the drugs he prescribes.
We eat honey and kill the honey-bee, with the result that honey is such a rare commodity today that it is only available to a 'Mahatma' like me or to those who must have it from the physician as a vehicle for the drugs he prescribes.
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Harijan, 11-3-'39 We are either ignorant or negligent of the divine law by virtue of which man has been given only his daily bread and no more, with the result that there arise inequalities with all the misery attendant upon them.
Harijan, 11-3-'39 We are either ignorant or negligent of the divine law by virtue of which man has been given only his daily bread and no more, with the result that there arise inequalities with all the misery attendant upon them.
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Contents
Sarvodaya | |
Theory of Trusteeship | |
Nonviolent Economy | |
The Way to Equal Distribution | |
Indias record of Nonviolence | |
The Sarvodaya State | |
Satyagraha and Duragraha | |
The Tillers of the Soil | |
Back to the Village | |
Every Village A Republic | |
Panchayat | |
Village Industries | |
What the Government can | |
Village Exhibition | |
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able become begin believe better body bread cause cities civil common condition difficulty disease duty economic effort English equal evil expect exploitation faith feel follow force foreign freedom give given Government hands Harijan Hindi Hinduism Hindus hold hope human ideal impossible independence individual industry knowledge labour land language less living masses matter means millions mind moral mother nation natural necessary never non-violence one’s opinion organized peace person political poor possession possible practice present produce provinces realize reason receive regard religion religious respect result rich rule serve social society soul speech spirit Swaraj teach thing true truth untouchability village violence whole women worker Writings Young India