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Explain Gandhi’s ideas regarding State and highlight their relationship with modern democracy and principles of anarchism.

  • UPSC 2006
  • 60 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi offered no theory of sovereignty or institutions. His view of the state is a moral judgement on organised coercion, drawn from ahimsa. It makes him an anarchist in ideal and a decentralising democrat in practice, yet fully neither.

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  • Gandhi's Ideas on the State
  • Relationship with Modern Democracy
  • Relationship with Anarchism
  • Limits
  • Conclusion
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