GANDHI AND THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT.

GANDHI'S CONTRIBUTION TO INDEPENDENCE:

Gandhi devoted his life to the law of truth and love, he was regarded as a great revolutionary who left a noticeable impact over the political, social and economic sphere. 

Gandhi wrote various major work like-

• HIND SWARAJ.


• HISTORY OF SATYAGRAH IN SOUTH AFRICA.


• COMMENTARIES ON THE GITA IN GUJRATI

Of these work, he translated hind swaraj in English. Gandhi always re-interpreted the meaning of swaraj in accordance with the requirement of time and used the word to receive the sleeping spirit of Indian people. 

GANDHI ON SWARAJ:

According to Mahatama Gandhi, the word swaraj was a Vedic word, which meant self-rule or rule which self-exercise over itself. Gandhi used swaraj as a purity concept. He believed in the ultimate realization of the possibility of the absolute. According to him, self-realization meant the discovery of and total identification with God, that is the truth itself

Swaraj stood as an ideology for the purity of mind, body and the soul taken together. According to him the higher-self or ego the spirit rules the lower self or the ego. Spirits exert its influence on the empirical ego, on emotion, mind as well as intelligence. Gandhi asserts that self-rule was a self-achieved state of affair, not something granted by others.