Gandhi’s Social Thought

Gandhi's Social Thought

1 Gandhi’s views on Social Change

  1. Why Social Change?
  2. Social Change in India
  3. Gandhi and Social Change
  4. Unconventional Techniques

2 Critique of Indian Social Order

  1. Dimensions of Social Order
  2. Unity of Human Life
  3. Core and Peripheral Values
  4. Individual Reformation
  5. Science and Technology
  6. Scientific Value Relativism

3 Varnashrama Dharma

  1. Origins of the Concept of Varna
  2. Varna in Post-Vedic Period
  3. Parameters of Varnas
  4. Gandhi on Varnashrama as Social Pattern

4 Critique of Modernity

  1. Modernity in India
  2. Gandhi and Modernity
  3. Problematising Modernity and Modernisation
  4. The New History
  5. Modernity and the Death of the Cosmos
  6. Post-Modern Gandhi

5 Hindu-Muslim Amity

  1. Gandhian Approach to Hindu-Muslim Unity
  2. Issues Affecting the Hindu-Muslim Amity
  3. Critical Assessment of Gandhian Approach

6 Communalism

  1. India’s Communal Problem in Historical Perspective
  2. Gandhi on India’s Communal Problem
  3. Swaraj First, Unity Later
  4. Gandhi and the Partition of India

7 Reforms in Religions

  1. Sources of Gandhi’s Religious Thought
  2. Gandhi’s Concept of Religion
  3. Gandhi and the Reconstruction of Hinduism
  4. Gandhi and Other Religions
  5. Religious Pluralism: Equal Respect for All Religions

8 Truth is God

  1. ‘God is Truth’ to ‘Truth is God’
  2. Absolute Truth and Relative Truth
  3. Truth in Thought, Speech and Action
  4. Means of Achieving Truth

9 Gandhi’s views on Women

  1. Gandhi on Women and India’s Future
  2. Ahimsa, Satyagraha and Woman
  3. Freedom and Women

10 Gandhi’s views on Depressed Classes

  1. Defining Depressed Classes
  2. Gandhi on Depressed Classes
  3. Gandhian Plan of Integrating Depressed Classes
  4. Critique of Gandhi’s Views

11 Gandhi’s views on Children and Youth

  1. Gandhi on Children
  2. Education of Children
  3. Gandhi on Youth

12 Gandhi’s views on Labour

  1. Economic Ideals of Gandhi
  2. Views on Industrial Relations
  3. Other Working Provisions
  4. Relevance of Gandhi’s Views on Labour in the 21st Century

13 Gandhi’s views on Health- (Vegetarianism, Naturopathy and Prohibition)

  1. Gandhi’s Vegetarianism
  2. Key to Health
  3. Nature Cure
  4. Prohibition (Evils of Intoxicants)
  5. Brahmacharya/Celibacy

14 Gandhi’s views on Education – (Nai Talim)

  1. Gandhi’s Philosophy and Aim of Education
  2. Education and Personality Development
  3. Basic Education (Nai Talim/New Education)
  4. Experiments in Education
  5. Education of Adults, Women and The Deprived Sections
  6. Message to the Students

15 Gandhi’s views on Language

  1. National Language
  2. English Language and Mother Tongue
  3. Hindi Language and Hindustani
  4. All India Common Script
  5. Linguistic Problem and Education

16 Gandhi’s views on Nature and Environment

  1. Gandhi on Environment
  2. Gandhi’s Critique of Modern Civilisation
  3. Man-Nature Relationship
  4. Voluntary Simplicity
  5. Village vs Urban Life
  6. Importance of Nature Cure
  7. Post-Gandhian Era