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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Mahatma Gandhi held a distinctive place in the history of Indian freedom movement as well as in the
momentous evolution from tradition to modernity. During the time-period ranging from l9l6 to 1947,
Gandhi had revealed his luminous dexterity and methods which made him the vanguard of the nation,
by the relentless logic of history. He was an iconoclast. Who quivered the basics of the powerful British Empire in India through multiple novel means such as non- violent, satyagraha, . Fasting, hartals, non'-cooperation and mass civil disobedience. Gandhi was a multifaceted virtuoso who applied his mind to glitches of human distress. His social ideas amply exhibited a deep and abiding consciousness of the fundamental reformation of the Indian society. In the economic sphere, he ardently believed that the economic salvation of India exclusively depended on the economic regeneration of vast millions of Indians living in the rural areas. ln line with such a policy. he championed the promotion of small scale village and cottage industries, which could offer productive employment on a long-term basis to the common masses of India. At the political level, Gandhi felt that the state was a means of intimidation, since it was likely to demoralize the cherished essential freedom of individuals. As an individualist, Gandhi judged that individuals could enhance their traits through truth and non-violence, drenched with an ambience of freedom.
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