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GANDHI JAYANTHI
            Gandhi’s






            Concept                                                Douglas Allen





            of Modern                                              Professor of Philosophy, The University of Maine




                                                                   For Gandhiji his life itself was the
            India                                                  message he could convey. So,
                                                                   reinventing the legend – the Mahatma
                                                                   becomes more than relevant in the
                                                                   tumultuous ‘time’ everyone is going
                                                                   through…








































            How would Mohandas Karamchand   India, Gandhi’s formulations of the   than during his lifetime.
            Gandhi regard “Modern India”    characteristics of modern India and
            with its “Modern Indians” and   its modern values and culture, along   As the most profound proponent
            their “Modern Civilization” today?   with his anti-modern/post-modern   and practitioner of ahimsa, Gandhi
            With the increasing domination   alternative values and perspectives   analyzes modernism, modern
            of modernism in post-Gandhi     are more relevant in October 2020   India, and modern civilization as

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