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Comment: Validity of the statement that most prominent among Gandhian principles are non-violence, adherence to truth and dignity of labour.

  • UPSC 2001
  • 20 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi left no treatise, so any list of his "principles" is a reconstruction from Hind Swaraj (1909), the Autobiography and four decades of journalism. The triad of truth, non-violence and dignity of labour is sound, provided it is read as a hierarchy from which his political doctrines derive.

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  • Truth: The Ground of the System
  • Non-violence: Truth Put into Action
  • Dignity of Labour: The Ethic Applied to Work
  • How Far the Statement Holds
  • Contemporary Resonance
  • Conclusion
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