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Hind Swaraj
by Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi argues that modern civilization itself is the problem.
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you want to understand Gandhi's politics at their most radical — before the world turned him into a poster
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Gandhi wrote this on a ship in 1909, returning from London to South Africa, in the form of a dialogue between a reader and an editor. It is his most radical text — arguing not just for Indian independence from Britain but for the rejection of Western modernity entirely: railways, hospitals, lawyers, modern medicine, industrial civilization. Gandhi believed that India's salvation lay in returning to village life and hand-spinning, not in replacing British industrialism with an Indian version. Controversial then, more controversial now, essential always. The most punk thing Gandhi ever wrote.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- India • South Asia
- Voice
- Written by a Indian author
- Themes
- After Empire
