MAHATMA GANDHI: HIS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Author: Bijoyini Mohanty
1994, Elite Publications, Mancheswar, Bhubaneswar
ISBN 85531-04-8
After 42 years of assassination of M. K. Gandhi and volumes written on his
life history, what more this small treatise is going to offer?
At the turn of the century, it will be meaningful to search the store of Gandhijee’s ideas. A mystic blend of saint and politician, he was idolized by his countrymen as more than human. He had stirred three hundred million people to revolt and had shaken the foundation of British Empire.
Gandhijee had introduced into human politics the strongest religious impetus of at last 2000 years. His ideas of non-violence have definite impact when his country is challenged by terrorism and when politics is swept by a wave of degeneration….
I have the pleasure to present this small volume on the greatest human politician on earth. Nearly forty three years have passed when he left us releasing us from the clutches of colonial imperialist. He is a saint among politicians and politician among saints, who amalgamated immiscible ingredients like religion and politics, morality and politics, after all humanity and politics. ………
Gandhijee’s political philosophy is unique in the sense he was a man of action, a politician in public and not a moral teacher. He has not prescribed some theories and doctrines in politics but is the apostle of non-violence. He is not the first person to pick it up and implement in mass movements. Gautam Buddha had pronounced such concepts in pages of Indian History, Ashok resorted to non-violence after pronounced spell of violence. But the term non-violence seems to be synonymous with Mahatma Gandhi, who adhered to it throughout his political career in India and abroad.