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India of My Dreams
India of My Dreams
Table of Contents
- Foreword (Rajendra Prasad)
- Preface To the revised edition
- Preface to the first edition
- To The Reader
- India of My Dreams The Meaning of Swaraj
- In Defense of Nationalism
- Democracy in India
- India and Socialism
- India and Communism
- The Curse of Industrialism
- Class War
- Strikes
- Choice Before Labour
- Rights or Duties
- The Problem of Unemployment
- Daridranarayan
- The Gospel of Bread Labour
- Sarvodaya
- Theory of Trusteeship
- Non-violent Economy
- The Way to Equal Distribution
- India's Record of Non-violence
- The Sarvodaya State
- Satyagraha and Duragraha
- The Tiller of The Soil
- Back to The Village
- Every Village A Republic
- Panchayat Raj
- Village Industries
- What The Government Can Do
- Village Exhibitions
- The Music of The Spinning Wheel
- The Mill Industry
- The Gospel of Swadeshi
- Cow Protection
- Co-operative Cattle Farming
- Village Sanitation
- Village Health
- Village Diet
- The Village Worker
- All-around Village Service
- A Call to Youth
- The Nation's Health, Hygiene and Diet
- Drink and Drugs
- Urban Sanitation
- Evil Wrought by The Foreign Medium
- My Own Experience
- India's Cultural Heritage
- The New Education
- Basic Education
- Higher Education
- Ashram Ideal of Education
- National Language and Script
- Provincial Languages
- Hindi in The South
- A Code for Students
- Regeneration of Indian Women
- Women's Education
- Birth-Control
- Sex Education
- Children
- Communal Unity
- Varnashrama Dharma
- The Curse of Untouchability
- Religious Tolerance in India
- Proselytization
- Problems of Administration
- Reorganization of Provinces
- The Problem of Minorities
- An India Governor
- The Press
- Peace Brigades
- Indian National Congress
- India, Pakistan and Kashmir
- Foreign Settlements in India
- India and World Peace
- The message of The East
- Obiter Dicta
- Glossary
- Sources
About This Book
By : Krishna Kripalani
Compiled by : R. K. Prabhu
With a foreword by : Dr. Rajendra Prasad
ISBN : 81-7229-002-0
Printed and Published by : Jitendra T. Desai,
Navajivan Publishing House,
Ahemadabad - 380 014,
India
© Navajivan Trust, 1947
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Sources
- Amrita Bazar Patrika :
Daily English newspaper published in Calcutta - An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth : By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabas-14, 1956
- Constructive Programme :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1948 - Delhi Diary :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1948 - From Yeravada Mandir :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1945 - Gandhi in Indian Villages :
By Mahadev Desai. S. Ganesan, Madras, 1927 - Gram Udyog Patrika :
Monthly journal of All- India Village Industries Association, Wardha - Harijan :
English weekly journal edited by Gandhiji and others and published at Ahmedabad; is discontinues since 1956 - Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1958 - India's Case for Swaraj :
By Mahatma Gandhi. Yeshanand and co., Bombay, 1932 - Key to Health :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1956 - Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi :
By D. G. Tendulkar, in 8 Vols. Vitthalbhai Jhaveri and D. G. Tendulkar, Bombay, 1951, onwards - Mahatma Gandhi, The Last Phase :
By Pyarelal. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, Vol. I, 1956; Vol. II, 1958 - Satyagraha in South Africa :
By M.K. Gandhi. navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad- 14, 1950 - Speeches and Writings of Mahatma Gandhi :
G. A. Natesan, Madras, 1933 - The Bombay Chronicle :
Daily newspaper published in Bombay - The Modern review :
Monthly journal published in Calcutta - To the students :
M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1958 - With Gandhiji in Ceylon :
By Mahadev Desai. S. Ganeshan, Madras, 1928 - Young India :
Weekly journal edited by Gandhiji and published at Ahmedabad; is discontinued since 1932
Chapter 45: India's Cultural Heritage
Nothing can be further from my thought than that we should become exclusive or erect barriers. But I do respectfully contend that an appreciation of other cultures can fitly follow, never precede, an appreciation and assimilation of our own. It is my firm opinion that no culture has treasures so rich as ours has. We have not known it, we have been made even to deprecate its study and depreciate its value. We have almost ceased to live it. An academic grasp without practice behind it is like an embalmed corpse, perhaps lovely to look at but nothing to inspire or ennoble. My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists under pain of civil suicide upon imbibing and living my own.
Young India, 1-9-'21
It stands for synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influence by the spirit of the soil. This synthesis will naturally be of the spirit of the soil. This synthesis will naturally be of the Swadeshi type, where each culture is assured its legitimate place, and not of the American pattern, where one dominant culture absorbs the rest, and where one dominant culture absorbs the rest, and where the aim is not towards harmony, but towards an artificial and forced unity.
Young India, 17-11-'20
The Indian culture of our times is in the making. Many of us are striving to produce a blend of all the cultures which seem today to be in clash with one another. No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. There is no such thing as pure Aryan culture in existence today in India. Whether the Aryans were indigenous to India. Whether the Aryans were indigenous to India or were unwelcome intruders, does not interest me much. What does interest me is the fact that my remote ancestors blended with one another with the result of that blend. Whether we are doing any good to the country of our birth and the tiny globe which sustains us or whether we are a burden, the future alone will show.
Harijan, 9-5-36