Hind Swaraj Analysis

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj written in 1909 is a piece so greatly planned and written, that it had the capacity, if properly understood, to revolutionize the scenario of India at that time. Hind Swaraj deals with Gandhi’s thoughts on true meaning of Swaraj. He gave his views on the topics very crucial for the colonial India like machinery, modern civilizations, etc. Hind Swaraj can be considered a book that is either critiquing modern civilization or is attempting to point out the elements that were necessary to be reformed for India to become integrated and achieve self-rule or home rule.
The call for Swaraj represents a genuine attempt to regain control of the 'self ' - our self-respect, self-responsibility, and capacities for self-realization. Swaraj for Gandhi was not only about getting freedom from English political rule but also to learn how to rule ourselves. He believed in the India where each person will become his own ruler. Each individual will conduct himself in such a way that his behavior will not hamper the well-being of his neighbors. Gandhi’s ideal State was a non-violent state of enlightened anarchy where social life would remain

Gandhi don’t care about the actions of human kinds but their intentions. He got aware of the intentions of the British. I think all that was said in hind Swaraj was very purposely stated. Each statement had a reason, not a direct one, but a reason for the bigger goal that Gandhi was seeing -the goal of independent India- and the way he was approaching this goal in hind Swaraj was the most appropriate way for me. For example, Gandhi criticized railways because he imbibed the intentions of British. As many writers and politicians including Partha Chaterjee have mentioned that for Britishers, economics was the primary consideration. They wanted the expansion of railways in India not because they wished anything good for us but only for their