Energy swaraj is based on which of the following principles of mahatma gandhi?

“We need to demystify solar energy,” says Prof. Chetan Singh Solanki, who aims to convince one lakh families to surrender their electrical connections and go off the grid on October 2, Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary. On the same day, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, he will help 10,000 students make solar study lamps. The solar man of India, as he is known, was in Kochi to officially launch Suryakranti — All India Solar Challenge — a race of solar cars scheduled for September 2020. Solanki, who teaches at IIT Bombay and is the founder of Gandhi Global Solar Yatra (GGSY), was inspired by Gandhian teachings of local self-sufficiency and sustainability to work on Energy Swaraj. His mission is to create a global movement around solar energy awareness. How did he hit upon solar energy? His PhD guide directed him to work in the field, saying it had great potential to solve the problems in society. Solanki’s trigger was a 2015 report about how most solar street lights in India did not work. He also found very few success stories on of decentralised solar solutions. He began to think of localising solutions to problems — of training communities to generate, consume, maintain and manage their resources locally. So he founded SoULS: Solar Urja Through Localisation for Sustainability, which aims to provide solar study lamp to every child in rural India as part of ‘Right to Light’ mission. Invoking Gandhiji’s teachings that training should use the hand, heart an...

This rich and thought-provoking book provides a thorough examination of the implications for political theory of Mahatma Gandhi’s experiments with truth and nonviolence. Gandhi was not a systematic political theorist in the sense that he did not intend to develop or formulate a coherent and comprehensive theory explaining or providing a normative framework for political institutions and forms of social organisation. This was partly (or perhaps largely) for methodological reasons, because of Gandhi’s emphasis on experiment through continually testing his ideas about nonviolence, self-rule, social norms, popular mobilisation and a host of other issues in the sphere of political practice. And yet, as Anuradha Veeravalli establishes in this book, this experimental method is in constant dialogue with a profound commitment to certain complex values (such as nonviolence) and political principles (such as swaraj or ‘self-rule’). This dialogue forms the basis of Gandhi’s self-proclaimed ‘experiments with truth’. Gandhi’s engagement with political theory provides a serious challenge to many of the presuppositions underlying conventional Western liberal political theory, concerning the place of the individual in society, the role of the state, and perhaps most significantly, the centrality of violence and coercion to forms of social and political organisation. Furthermore, as Veeravalli points out, Gandhi is significant for political theory not only because he presents ‘a critique of...

What is Gandhi’s Concept of Swaraj? Explaining Gandhi on Swaraj Gandhi’s concept of Swaraj is defined as a ‘model code of conduct which points men on the path of their duty,’ path of control over desires, and the path of ‘mastery over their minds and passions.’ Swaraj implies the elevation of a personal moral being to limit indulgences and sees happiness as largely a mental construct. Otherwise, what did Gandhiji mean by Swaraj? Find out more about Gandhi on Swaraj and independence, democracy and the future of India. “I am not interested in freeing India merely from the English yoke. I am bent upon freeing India from any yoke whatsoever. I have no desire to exchange king log for king stork. Hence for me the movement of Swaraj is a movement of self purification.” Selections from Gandhi by Nirmal Kumar Bose, 1948 Gandhi on Swaraj: What does Swaraj Mean? First, to achieve the state of ‘Swaraj,’ one has to live a life of simplicity and should not have greed for wealth and power. For Gandhi, high mental intellect is not possible unless one stops running after material life. Basically, he wanted to • National Independence • Political freedom of the individual • Economic freedom of the individual • Spiritual freedom of the individual or ‘self rule.’ Mahatma Gandhi’s concept of Swaraj confirms his firm commitment to moral individualism. The term ‘Swaraj’ literally means ‘self-rule,’ ‘self-government,’ ‘self-determination’ or ‘independence.’ This term became popular during India’s ...

Learn More Abstract This paper is aimed at analyzing Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas of satyagraha (form of non-violent resistance) and swaraj (self-governance). In particular, the work focuses on major ethical and philosophical principles, which lie at the core of Gandhi’s doctrine. In addition to that, the applicability of his ideas to the problems of international community is discussed. Gandhi The ideas, expressed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi have always been a subject of heated sociological debate. The main reason for it is their complexity and even contradictoriness. The spiritual leader of Indian Independence Movement attempted to develop non-violent method of resistance to the British Rule. This form of protest was called satyagraha. Gandhi defined it in the following way “ Satyagraha is literally holding on to Truth and it means, therefore, Truth-force. Truth is soul or spirit. It is, therefore, known as soul-force. It excludes the use of violence because man is not capable of knowing the absolute truth and, therefore, not competent to punish” (Gandhi, 1961). This form of struggle involved civil disobedience and non-cooperation with the British government. The purpose of satyagraha is not to destroy the enemy but to find the solution which can suit both. It is worth mentioning that his principles were once violated, the riot in Chauri Chaura left twenty British soldiers dead. Naturally, Gandhi condemned this act of violence (Gandhi. 1996). As it has already been mentioned...

Ramin Jahanbegloo explores how Mahatma Gandhi’s non-western democratic theory prescribes empathetic emancipation through nonviolent action. Gandhi sought to bring about a truly democratic transformation of society, thereby securing an ethical social order Mahatma Gandhi was more than just the Indian independence leader as which we remember him today. Nor was he simply the father of the Indian nation. He was also one of the key twentieth century figures in non-western democratic theory. Without Gandhi, nonviolent democratic theory would not have come into general use in global civic resistance against authoritarian regimes around the world. Nonviolence as tool for democracy building Gandhi turned the religious concept of ahimsa (non-harm), common to Eastern religions like Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism, into a democratic tool for mass resistance. In this way, he updated the old notion of ahimsa by making it relevant to the urgent problems of democracy-building in the modern world. The ethical and the political are one and the same in nonviolent democratic theory Gandhi’s philosophy of democracy introduced anti-monistic and pluralistic dimensions to the diversity of cultures and faiths in the Indian subcontinent. His appeal to a nonviolent democratic theory was based on an inclusive and dialogical idea of living together. This idea disapproved of national or religious self-centredness and fanaticism in all forms. As such, nonviolence was presented not just as an instrument o...

Mahatma Gandhi is the central figure in the Indian independence movement who protested peacefully against British colonial rule. The teachings and principles of Gandhi define the identity of India until now. His simple self-woven dress, sandals, and round glasses gave him an unusually puritan look. He repeatedly went on a hunger strike fighting for the rights of the „untouchables” (the most vulnerable in society), the equality between women and men, and between different religions. Gandhi was assassinated six months after the country gained its independence. He did not want to be idolized and said he had nothing to teach the world because “truth and non-violence are as old as the hills.” Famous quotes of Gandhi „Be the change that you want to see in the world.” „Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” „You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.” „What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and one another.” „The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” • • • • • • • • • • • • • The road to South-Africa Gandhi was born in 1869 in Gujarat state, in a wealthy family under the name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Nobel laureate poetRabindranath Tagore gave him the honorary title, “Mahatma” (Great Souled). Gandhi’s father governed one of the Principalities in the Stat...