Critically examine Gandhi’s views on Citizenship.
Answers
For Gandhi ji, the individual citizen has a dharma (duty not religion). It is the authority of the right to judge the state and its laws by the standards of dharma and even the duty of moral authority with duty, in which both truth and non-violence are involved, therefore it is the paramount duty of a person, It is the right that he considers himself responsible for every act of his government. Loyalty to a corrupt state is like a sin, it is a characterless. While describing civil disobedience as the moral authority of every person, he has given it status as a ‘birthright’. A ‘Satyagrahi’ should work for the betterment of the general public, not the fear of punishment.
Explanation:
Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of the Nation. He is said to lay the foundation of independent India; he believed that every state had the inherent power for oppression and violence. His conception of citizenship is based on the following :
Satya (truth and sincerity)
Ahimsa (non-violence in thought and deed)
Dharma (moral law and duty)
He believed in the creation of a state based on these principles, but most of the country didn’t work on this.