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Explicate the ideological components of Gandhism.

  • UPSC 2020
  • 20 marks
  • Indian Political Thought

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M. K. Gandhi told the Gandhi Seva Sangh in 1936 that there was no such thing as "Gandhism", and that he wanted no sect to survive him. Yet his writings in Hind Swaraj, Young India and Harijan form a connected structure. A metaphysics of truth grounds an ethic of non-violence. That ethic yields a method,…

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  • 1. Metaphysical Foundation: Truth and Self-Realisation
  • 2. Ethical Core: Ahimsa and the Unity of Ends and Means
  • 3. Method: Satyagraha
  • 4. Political Component: Swaraj and a Minimal State
  • 5. Economic Component
  • 6. Social and Religious Component
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion
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