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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

1869–1948

Also known as: Gandhi, Bapu, MK Gandhi, महात्मा गांधी, मोहनदास गांधी, मोहनदास करमचंद गांधी

How Mahatma Gandhi is discussed in this archive

Authored 2 works in the archive.

Referenced in 60 other works , including Satyagraha and the Political System , The Universality of Human Values - M.R. Masani , and The Universality Of Human Values .

In The Case for Liberalism in Indian History : Gandhi is invoked as a source of anarchist/anti-statist ideas within Shah's Indian-liberalism synthesis.

In CUSTOMER : Anand Sinha opens by invoking Mahatma Gandhi's well-known lines on the customer as the speech's foundational text, using Gandhi's moral authority to anchor the argument that the customer is the raison d'être of business.

In ખોજ : Ashvinkumar Karia's critique of moral policing places Gandhi within a combined Western-Indian intellectual tradition — alongside Aristotle, Plato, Nehru and Tagore — that he marshals against coercive moralism.

In Embracing Corporate Social Responsibility : Gandhi's trusteeship model is cited alongside Adam Smith as twin pillars of Aga's argument that CSR is grounded in both Western liberal economics and Indian ethical tradition.

In Fifty Years After ... : Gandhi is cited by E.

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Opinion pieces (10)

  • A Resilient Soul: Ramadevi Chowdhuri
    • "Her childhood was influenced by freedom fighters and thinkers like Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave, Sri Aurobindo, and JP Narayan." · Names Gandhi as one of the ideational influences on Chowdhuri's entry into the independence movement
  • B.R. Ambedkar on Justice Ranade, Social Reform and Failure of Indian Liberalism
    • "Ambedkar's embittered take on both Gandhi and Jinnah as a sideway reference in the speech opened him to criticism in the Indian press" · contextualising the controversial aspect of Ambedkar's speech that attracted press attention
  • Diversity, Democracy, and Dissent
    • "we see Mahatma Gandhi, the "arch dissenter of the twentieth century" winning India its freedom in 1947" · Gandhi invoked as the supreme historical example of constructive dissent in the Indian tradition
  • Dr B R Ambedkar on Village Panchayats
    • "Ambedkar's views on Panchayati Raj in India differed from that of other leaders like Mahatma Gandhi in terms of the practicality of its implementation." · Gandhi's advocacy for village panchayats is named as the dominant view that Ambedkar's speech challenges
  • Dr Muthulakshmi Reddi: Beacon of Women's Liberty
    • "Mahatma Gandhi's inspiring leadership profoundly impacted her. Under his influence, she actively engaged in the freedom struggle, coordinated efforts with other leaders, and played a crucial role in the movement." · Gandhi is identified as the pivotal figure who channelled Reddi's social energy into the national independence cause
  • Minoo Masani : From Socialism to Liberal Swatantra Party
    • "In response to Minoo Masani's socialist agenda, he wrote, "the progressive nationalisation of all the instruments of production, distribution and exchange" was "too sweeping to be admissible. Rabindranath Tagore is an instrument of marvellous production. I do not know that he will submit to be nationalised."" · Gandhi's famous riposte to Masani's nationalisation proposals
    • "Gandhi's dictum that the end doesn't justify the means translated into a repudiation of communist insurrections." · identifies Gandhi as the ethical anchor of Masani's anti-communist turn
  • Rajaji's Views on Nuclear Bomb
    • "A trusted lieutenant of Gandhi in days of anti-colonial struggle, he reinvented himself as an anti-nuclear weapons activist as the Cold war picked pace." · establishes Gandhi as the political anchor of Rajaji's pre-Cold War career
  • Rajkumari Amrit Kaur: Philanthropy and Politics
    • "Deeply inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s commitment to the nation’s freedom and development, she joined Gandhi’s Sewagram Ashram and worked as his secretary for 16 years." · establishes Gandhi as the defining personal and political influence in Amrit Kaur's public life
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Excerpts (24)

  • Caste System, Greatest Curse of India
    • "The same writer further says in his book "What Gandhi and Congress have done for the untouchables"" · Gandhi enters the essay implicitly as the named subject of the Ambedkar text Kulkarni quotes
  • Censorship and the Law of Inexorability
    • "showed Nathuram Godse's political and psychological motivation for killing Gandhi. The movie was based on a book by celebrated historian Stanley Wolpert" · Gandhi's assassination is the subject matter that made the film politically sensitive and triggered the censorship
  • Controls and Freedom
    • "Gandhiji, as is well known, was firmly against controls and their continuance." · Gandhi's anti-controls stance is cited to show that economic freedom is not a merely Western liberal idea but is embedded in the Indian independence tradition
  • Forty-Three Years of Independence
    • "I would be dishonouring the memory of Pandit Nehru and of his mentor, Mahatma Gandhi, if I try to be economical with the truth." · Gandhi's legacy is paired with Nehru's as a joint moral warrant for the lecture's frank assessment
  • Have We Lost Our Will To Be Free?
    • "Gandhiji used to call it slave mentality. He fought hard to eliminate it. But the reaction was just anti-Britishism, not, as we now regretfully realize, the positive love of freedom" · Gandhi's slave-mentality diagnosis is turned by Rajagopalachari into a critique of the independence movement's incomplete liberation
  • Any Hope for Indian Liberals?
    • "even Gandhi's anarchism proved to be little more than a scoring point with them" · Joshi situates Gandhi's anarchism within the broader statist consensus of the independence movement to explain why Indian liberalism has remained marginalised
  • The Role of Ideas in Politics
    • "Nehru or Gandhi are riding rough-shod over our lives creating havoc and seem to be well-nigh uncontrollable." · Gandhi and Nehru are invoked together as dominant but distorted ideological forces in Indian political life
  • Is There A Middle Way? - Dr F. A. Mehta
    • "totally unacceptable to a country committed to the doctrines of Mahatma Gandhi" · Gandhi's doctrine of the dignity of labour is invoked to explain the political impossibility of mass redundancies in Indian economic restructuring
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  • Is This The Freedom We Fought For?
    • "When Gandhiji gave the "Do or Die" call, many like me responded. We had dreams of what we would do after freedom." · Gandhi's 1942 call frames the author's personal vision of independence and the standard against which subsequent political failure is measured
  • Corruption of Thought
    • "During the life of Gandhi, older ideas of life's values were predominant" · Rao locates the intellectual rupture at Gandhi's death — older Indian value-thinking gave way to imported leftist policy
  • Minoo Masani on Liberalism
    • "Gandhiji's attitude to religion was much more liberal than that of those who call themselv" · Gandhi is invoked as a model of the liberal religious attitude Masani is defining
  • Minoo Masani: Old Liberalism & New Liberalism
    • "It was killed by Mahatma Gandhi. When Gandhiji came on the scene as a dynamic nationalist following Tilak and Lajpatrai, he had no use for the old Liberalism" · Gandhi as the agent who ended the old liberal tradition
    • "This I learnt from Mahatma Gandhi with whom I used to argue as a young socialist. He kept on saying that by doubtful methods, you can't gel a good end." · Gandhi as a source of the ends-means ethic that informs the new liberalism
  • My Idea of A Welfare State - B.R. Shenoy
    • "What has Gandhi to say on the subject? He is always a good and safe guide in these matters." · Shenoy appeals to Gandhi as the authoritative voice on Indian philosophy of welfare
    • "That state is perfect and non-violent where the people are governed the least" · Gandhi's dictum is the final philosophical anchor for Shenoy's concept of a minimum welfare state
  • National Priorities for 1970
    • "Our basic creed is free competition, a free market economy, plus Gandhiji's theory of Trusteeship." · Gandhi's Trusteeship doctrine cemented as Swatantra's third leg alongside free competition and free markets
    • "We believe in the Gandhian path to social justice, as opposed to that of Karl Marx." · the explicit Gandhi-versus-Marx framing at the heart of Swatantra's self-definition
  • Population Causes Prosperity
    • "Instead of seeing the future of India in terms of thousands of self-governing and self-sufficient village republics (the Gandhi-Nehru vision), we can see India as an urban civilisation." · the Gandhi-Nehru rural-republic vision is named as the opposing thesis to Chakraverti's urbanisation argument
  • Satyagraha and the Political System
    • "Both in South Africa and India the system that confronted Gandhi was based on illegitimacy." · establishes satyagraha as a response to illegitimate colonial rule
    • "Gandhi, therefore, invented the technique of satyagraha (non-violent direct action) to undo this unequal status of the groups in the former and overthrow the latter." · credits Gandhi with originating satyagraha as a political tool
  • Sharad Joshi on Liberalism in India
    • "Gandhi represented  a platform much truer to Hindu thought that upheld at the same time some sort of ecumenism- the identity of all faiths." · Joshi characterises Gandhi's ideological position within the independence movement
    • "Rajaji, who had a very high standing among the followers of Gandhi and who became the first Indian Governor General of independent India, had correctly foreseen the disaster that Nehru's license-permit quota Raj would produce." · Gandhi's legacy invoked as the authority that gave Rajaji standing to found the Swatantra Party
  • Statement of the Principles of Swatantra Party
    • "The Party, therefore, adheres to the principle of Trusteeship adumbrated by Gandhiji." · Swatantra Party explicitly grounds its economic ethics in Gandhi's Trusteeship doctrine
    • "The Party shall, in all matters, keep before itself the cardinal teachings of Gandhiji, maintaining faith in the people and in the efficacy of truth and non-violence." · Gandhi's teachings formally enshrined as a guiding principle of the party
  • THE DANGERS OF JOINT CO-OPERATIVE FARMING
    • "that is the method that Mahatma Gandhi always urged, the establishment of rural industries, the taking of industry to the countryside with electric power or without. My own emphasis, like Mahatma Gandhi's, would be on decentralised industry" · Masani aligns his anti-cooperative-farming stance with Gandhi's decentralisation philosophy
  • The Essence of Democracy
    • "Mahatma Gandhi said : "That Government is best which governs the least."" · Gandhi's principle of minimal government cited as a liberal democratic norm
  • The Universality of Human Values - M.R. Masani
    • "Mahatma Gandhi in a wider context, namely, that each right carries with it a corresponding obligation" · opening passage; Gandhi's axiom invoked to frame the question of human rights and population
    • "Gandhi represents the complete antithesis to the Communist and has been recognized as such in the Moscow press and radio over three decades" · central argument contrasting Gandhian values with dialectical materialism
  • The Universality Of Human Values
    • "Mahatma Gandhi shown that the man who evokes a response in their hearts is the one who talks to them of non-material values like God, Love, Truth, Human Brotherhood" · refuting Crossman's thesis that Asian masses are purely material in their aspirations
    • "Gandhi represents the complete antithesis of the Communist and has been recognized as such in the Moscow press and radio for over three decades" · core ideological contrast between Gandhian and communist worldviews
  • To Prosperity through Freedom
    • "The congress from the days of its founder Mahatma Gandhi has contented itself with practical programmes leaving ideology and refinement of ideals to the supreme leader" · context for why Congress never rigorously debated its socialist orientation
    • "Gandhi dreamt of Hind Swaraj. a republic of autonomous villages living an Arcadian life of simplicity close to nature" · Gandhi's vision listed among competing visions that Swatantra opposes with free-economy ideas
  • Nani Palkhivala: Education, Leadership, and Vision of Free India
    • "just as we do not deserve our sublime Constitution, just as we do not deserve to have great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, we did not deserve the galaxy of Indians mentioned earlier" · Palkhivala's concluding lamentation on India's failure to honour its liberal and national heritage

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