Question

Explain the political thought of Mahatma

Gandhi.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Political in our day-to-day understanding is an all comprehensive term. Mostly it has bee used to mean State Politics that includes structure and functioning of a State as well as its correlation with other states. Politics used as a Science of state or an academic discipline which is not competent to change the image of politics, which is understood as an activity centering round power and very often devoid of simples.

Etymologically, politics comes from the Greek root 'polis'. It implies the principles and applications that guided the governance of the Greek city-states. It should be remembered tat State was a holistic conception to the ancient Greeks, which covered every public activity of the citizens. In many Indian languages, politics has been called Rajniti. In one sense, it meant the principle of administration of the King or ruler.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Gandhian political theory has been broadly debated from two important perspectives. One argument places Gandhian political theory as a relative or a reconciled pattern of both Western and Eastern traditions. The other argument suggests that Gandhi is an original thinker, in the sense that he is a unique innovator of political concepts, inherently based on Indian traditions. In this way, it can be argued that Gandhi developed a distinctive and an alternative version of political theory compared to Western notion of political theory. I shall argue in the same line. My concern is to emphasize an alternative version of political theory that Gandhi had dealt with; it is to stress the essential character of Gandhian thread running through the traditional thought developed in India.