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Comment in 150 words: Gandhi’s Views on State.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 10 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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M. K. Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) approached the state as a moralist, not a constitutional theorist. Since ahimsa was his first principle, he judged the modern state by the coercion it rests on, and wanted that coercion reduced as far as human nature allowed.

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