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Comment in 150 words: Gandhian perspective of development and its contemporary relevance.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 10 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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For M. K. Gandhi, development meant the growth of the person, not merely of output. Its end was swaraj — self-rule of the individual, the village and the nation — and its test was moral. First set out in Hind Swaraj (1909), the perspective was set aside by India's planners as archaic; today it reads…

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