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Gandhian Approach to Development: Implications for the Post-COVID World

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Abstract

Many wonder how Gandhi would have responded to rural poverty, pandemics, and climate change. This is because conventional understandings of human organization, with their increased focus on resilience without questioning the capitalist order, have failed to instill confidence in achieving sustainability. Human greed, instead of focusing on basic needs, lies behind this predicament. This chapter draws on ideas of degrowth, solidarity economy, and, above all, the Gandhian approach to development, suggesting how villages can produce most of the goods they need and insulate themselves from corporate exploitation. In such a village-based democratic order built on self-reliance and basic needs satisfaction, health will attain a community orientation rather than an individual orientation, and production will be ecologically intensive. Gandhi was oblivious to modern environmental challenges. However, his village-based development model created the groundwork for a sustainable way of life, and its environmental implications were spelled out more explicitly by his committed economist, J. C. Kumarappa. Gandhi seems to suggest that humans can improve the quality of life even when the standard of living decreases in material terms, and calls for humility, recognizing the limits to human material and technological progress.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Navigating Power Relations in Community-Driven Development: An Exploration of Constructive Work
Nächstes Kapitel School Education for Today: Extending Tagore and Gandhi’s Idea of a Good Society (Swaraj) and Its Accompanying New Education (Nai Talim)
Fußnoten
1
Hind Swaraj, meaning Indian home rule, is a book written by M. K. Gandhi in 1909.
 
2
A spiritual retreat.
 
3
(In yoga) the regulation of breath through certain techniques and exercises.
 
4
Originally a revolution against the rise of neo-liberalism; advocated education based on ancestral wisdom to build autonomous communities protecting indigenous culture and dignity.
 
5
It means the equilibrium or balance between living organisms such as human beings, plants, and animals, as well as their environment.
 
6
Another short name is provided for the Republic of India in its constitution. It is also used to refer to the marginalized in India.
 
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Considered among the largest religious congregation of Hindus with participation exceeding 200 million at present.
 
8
Before the establishment of the first such industrial unit (Khira Trusteeship Project Private Ltd.) in Pune in 1981 on the initiative of an industrialist and a few supporters of the trusteeship principle, there was not a single trusteeship-based organization in India. It initially operated well for more than 3 years before closing down in 1985. In the cooperative sector, the second trusteeship organization in India was founded in Mehsana (Gujarat) in November 1985, which is still operational (Ghosh, 1989).
 
9
The Cowboy Economy stands for maximum production and consumption. In such an economy, the extent to which one is able to produce goods, using the factors of production, is the criterion of success and is oblivious to the consequences that it has on the environment and human life. Throughput is by no means a desirable factor in the spaceman economy, and it should really be viewed as something to be decreased rather than enhanced. The nature, scope, quality, and complexity of the entire capital stock – which includes the state of the human bodies and minds incorporated into the system – are the key indicators of economic success, not production and consumption at all. Since stock maintenance is the fundamental concern in the spaceman economy, any technical advancement that makes it possible to maintain a given total stock with a lower throughput (i.e., with less output and consumption) is unquestionably beneficial (Boulding, 1966).
 
10
The period starting in the 1960s when agriculture in many parts of India moved to more mechanized solutions with high-yielding variety of seeds, etc.
 
11
Hand-spun and woven natural fiber cloth, which was promoted by Gandhi during the Swadeshi movement in India’s freedom struggle.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Gandhian Approach to Development: Implications for the Post-COVID World
verfasst von
John S. Moolakkattu
Copyright-Jahr
2023
Verlag
Springer Nature Singapore
Buch
Social Entrepreneurship and Gandhian Thoughts in the Post-COVID World

Print ISBN: 978-981-9940-07-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-9940-08-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2023

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4008-0_4

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