INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Mahatma Gandhi's Vision and Contemporary Political Leadership in North East India

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 

on Mahatma Gandhi's Vision and Contemporary Political Leadership in North East India

(October 5-6, 2018)

Organized by:

International Centre for Gandhian Studies University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya(USTM), India.

Venue:

USTM Campus, Khanapara, Ninth Mile, Meghalaya

October 2nd, 2018-19, marks the 150th Birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. His message of Non violence and peaceful co-existence is more relevant to the current situation now than ever before. Therefore, we at USTM decided to provide a common platform to international, national as well as our own scholars where we can review the teachings of Gandhi in modern context.

Under ICGS, a Gandhian centre for peace and conflict resolution, we propose to organise a two day International Conference on 5th and 6th October, 2018. Eminent Gandhian scholars and reputed academicians from across the globe will participate in the Conference. READ MORE...

Gandhi Journal Article-II (September 2015) : Schumacher on Gandhi

Gandhi Journal Article-II (September 2015) : Schumacher on Gandhi

By Surur Hoda  

Gandhi’s visions of Gram Swaraj (i.e. self-sufficient but inter-linked village republics with decentralised small-scale economic structure and participatory democracy) left him immediately at odds with many in the Indian National Congress and outside who sought to develop India as a ‘modern’ industrial nation state. To Gandhi, political freedom was merely the first step towards attainment of real independence which entailed achieving social, moral and economic freedom for seven hundred thousand villages. ‘If the villages perish India will perish’ he had said. But the majority of academically-trained, so-called modern economists called his vision ‘retrograde’. Some extremists even described it as ‘reactionary’ or ‘counter-revolutionary’ which aimed to put the clock back.

Many of those who admired his skill in leading the struggle for national liberation reluctantly tolerated his views as the price to pay for his political leadership. They were sold on the concept of large-scale urban industrialisation, mass production and economics of scale. They failed to understand Gandhi’s economic insight and criticised him by saying ‘Whatever Gandhi’s merit as “Father of the Nation”, he simply does not understand economics.’
 

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