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100 _aMehta, Makrand
245 _aGandhi and Ahmedabad, 1915-20
260 _c2005
300 _ap.291-99.
362 _a22 Jan
520 _aOn his return to Ahmedabad after successful experiments with satyagraha in South Africa, Gandhi rediscovered and strove to revive Ahmedabad's business-oriented yet pluralistic traditions of coexistence. As newspapers of the period and other contemporary accounts reveal, Gandhi effectively utilised these principles in the varied struggles he led to promote the cause of freedom, peace, communal harmony and social justice. Based on his initial experiments and campaigns, Gandhi developed his own unique vision and a plan of action that was based on his understanding of the complexity that defined colonial India and his concern for its many underprivileged. At the present juncture, this very same Gandhian legacy appears turned upside down by the politics of divisiveness. - Reproduced.
650 _aGandhi, M.K.
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
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