Who Is Gandhi's Hind Swaraj?

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s “Hind Swaraj” (Gandhi, 1962) is a dialogue between the reader and the editor, who is the author himself. It discusses the problems attacking India under the British rule and during this critique, Gandhi completely condemns modern civilisation. He questioned the accepted myths and the truths and criticized political methodology, philosophy or political movements. While the British were establishing their rule and spreading their way of life, Gandhi was trying to figure out the root of the problem. He realised that what was considered to be “modern civilisation” is was in fact what is was keeping India divided and colonised.

Oxford dictionary defines civilisation as "The stage of human social development and organisation,

His argument is was that lawyers do did not take up the profession to help one another but instead to enrich themthem as it is was a wealthy profession. “They are glad when men have disputes.” (Gandhi, 1962, p. 51). He believeds that the earlier way of resolving disputes amongst the two parties is was much better than paying a third party which may or may not be able to understand the issue and provide true justice. He also goes went on to argue that with the prevalence of this profession amongst Indians, the English rule has become became stronger as it has had helped the British find a way to legitimise their power. If there were only English judges and lawyers, Indians would have not followed them and the English would have not been able to establish control but since there are were Indian judges and lawyers, Indians followed them and the English can could establish control. By leaving this profession, he believeds, the English would break up almost immediately. I completely agree with this argument of Gandhi as I feel the medium through which they are able to control the laws (i.e. the lawyers) needs to be removed and Indians amongst themselves should be able to resolve disputes. The modern legal systems introduced by the British intended to make the judicial institutions just but they did nothing just for an individual or a society. The lawyers lived in a box and were

He didn’t attempt to establish India as superior and the west as inferior. In fact, his fight was against the institutions of the western civilisation. He wanted this thought to be applied universally and not just to India. (Chatterjee, 1986, p. 93) Gandhi did have a “vision of utopia” (Chatterjee, 1986, p. 98), but he took this vision, localized it to fit the situation of India and fought till the very end to achieve India’s independence. His belief in his vision and his determination played and continues to play a major role in the Indian society. want to remove the British rule but wanted to remove all the institutions associated with it as he felt this was the only way to attain true swaraj and this is the philosophy of Gandhi that I believe has helped India attain its independence