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Write short note: Sarvodaya as a social movement.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Sarvodaya — "the rise of all" — entered Indian vocabulary in 1908, when Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi gave that title to his Gujarati rendering of John Ruskin's Unto This Last. Against the utilitarian formula of the greatest good of the greatest number, Gandhi insisted the good of the individual is contained in the good of all,…

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  • The movement in its phases
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