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Examine the Gandhian idea of village community as an ideal unit of self – governance.

  • UPSC 2012
  • 20 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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For Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, India lives in her villages, and swaraj that did not begin there would be a change of masters. His Gram Swaraj makes the village community the primary site of self-rule, not an administrative tier. Examining the claim means testing its normative logic against the sociology of the Indian village and the…

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  • The Gandhian Claim
  • Testing the Claim: Theory and Sociology
  • Testing the Claim: The Institutional Record
  • Conclusion
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