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Comment: “Real rights are a ·result of performance of duty”. (Mahatma Gandhi)

  • UPSC 2008
  • 20 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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The sentence comes from chapter XVI, "Brute Force", of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (1909). The Reader wants freedom won by arms. The Editor replies that the English extended their franchise by agitation and force, yet gained no sense of duty. Real rights are a result of performance of duty; these rights they have not…

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  • Real Rights and Usurped Rights
  • The Principle in Gandhi's Practice
  • Why the Idea Still Speaks
  • Critique
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