A Study of Mahatma Gandhi's Vision for the Future of India

Authors

Dr. Anamika M.A., Ph.D. (History), B.R.A. Bihar University, Muzaffarpur (Bihar) , India

Civil Disobedience, Unorthodox, Capitalism, Anarchic Principles

Few would dispute the notion that Mahatma K. Gandhi was one of the twentieth century

As Judith Brown writes, “He seems to have visualized a loose linkage of independent village republics as the ideal form of the state… he can therefore properly be called an anarchist.” Judith Brown, Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 205.
Jawarharlal Nehru, Towards Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru, (New York: John Day, 1941), 76.
Anthony Parel “Introduction” in A. Parel, ed., Hind Swaraj: And Other Writings, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xiii.
Rudrangshu Mukherjee, ed., The Penguin Gandhi Reader, (London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1993), x.
Anthony Parel, “Introduction” in A. Parel, ed., Hind Swaraj: And Other Writings, xxx.
Gandhi, “Hind Swaraj” in Parel, ed., Hind Swaraj: And Other Writings, 39
Parel, “Introduction”, xvi.
Mukherjee, xiv.
Brown, 205.
“Interview to Francis Hickman”, Collected Works, 17 Sep. 1940. See Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, 88.
Nehru, Towards Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru, 52. See: Mukherjee, x.