Write a brief note on Total Revolution.
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6.2 CONCEPT OF TOTAL REVOLUTION
Explanation = To understand the word Total Revolution, we have to first of all understand the word“revolution”. Revolution as a concept has been defined in a number of ways. George Saweyer, Pettee, Samuel P. Huntington, Sigmund Neumann and Thomas S. Kuhn define revolution as value change. By value change is meant a change in the dominant value of the community at a particular point of time in its temporal dimension The most common definitions of revolution have laid emphasis on a structural and institutional transformation in the existing social relationship and institutional bases of the society. The theorists of structural change envisage that a revolution replaces one social structure by another.
6.3 THE COMPONENT OF TOTAL REVOLUTION
explanation = There are seven components of Total Revolution – social, economic, political, cultural,ideological, intellectual, educational, and spiritual. These numbers may be increased or decreased.
The most important variable in the cultural change is education. According to JP,
education must be a powerful element of social change and it should be closely
linked to national development. It should be biased in favour of the masses rather
than in favour of the upper classes. It must create a new kind of awareness among
the submerged and weaker sections of our society, so that they feel fully integrated
with the society. He had suggested the following changes in the present system:
(i) One-third to one-half of the working time in all educational institutions at all stages
should be devoted to active participation in the programmes of social service and
national development.
(ii) A large part of non-formal education should be introduced in the system. Part-time
education and correspondence courses must be expanded at the secondary and
university stages.
(iii) A large part of our budget on education benefits the upper classes with the result
that the masses are left out. Such an imbalance must be corrected if social justice
is to be the objective of our educational policies, with this end in view, three
programmes must be given top priority, namely (i) adult education; (ii) a non-formal
education of less than six hours a week to all out-of-school youths in the age-group
of 15-26; and lastly (iii) universalisation of elementary education for all children
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Total Revolution
He advocated a program of social transformation by participation of youth in social activities. He called it Total Revolution (Sampurna Kranti) Movement. Protests and closure of colleges and universities also occurred on 15 July. Some colleges started after that and examinations were held.