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Contents 1 stub created from "what links here" 2 Anarchism 3 Swaraj 4 Automated Peer review 5 Woefully inadequate

[edit] stub created from "what links here"

This page used to be a redirect to self-governance. However, that article didn't even contain the term! Since there were many links to this page, I decided to create a stub from the articles that linked here. Most of these links were only due to the template {{India independence movement}}. All articles that contained actual links in the text have been included in the stub, with the exception of the following:

• Maratha Empire - meant as "independence"
• Rattanbai Petit - Not sure what her view was
• Shivneri Fort - meant as "independence"
• Asian Underground - no back link necessary
• Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms - no back link necessary
• Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth - no back link necessary
• Bhupendra Kumar Datta - seems to say that Chittaranjan Das had his own swaraj program, but I'm not sure enough to put this in the article
• List of Amar Chitra Katha comics - no back link necessary

To be honest, I know very little about swaraj. Someone who knows more about it could decide to merge this with Poorana Swaraj, Purna Swaraj or Indian independence movement, or to change this into a disambiguation page between the former and self-governance. — Sebastian 02:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anarchism

I think that Swaraj's concept of self governance of small communities with little involvement of a central authority shows that it is essentially a form of anarchism. See: http://calpeacepower.org/0201/PDF/was_gandhi_an_anarchist.pdf This should be included in the article. - Shahab 10:47, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Swaraj

This article should definitely be expanded. Swaraj is a concept that has been purposely subdued by Indian govt and its philosophy as espoused by Gandhi is rarely understood.

Ideas for expansion:

• Gandhi and Anarchism.
• Tolstoy's influence.
• Synthesis of modern-traditional thought in Swaraj.
• Dual character of Swaraj - self government and self control.
• Gandhi's critique of modern west - on majority democracy (USA), parliamentary democracy (UK).
• Disagreements between Nehru and Gandhi which led India to adopt a political and social system against Swaraj's philosophy.
• Gandhi's isolation in implementing Swaraj.
• The Bhoodan movement.

A website with lots of info and number of references on this topic is http://www.swaraj.org/ --Shahab 10:57, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automated Peer review

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[edit] Woefully inadequate

This article is woefully inadequate. The concept does not originate with Ghandi. See this artcile which discusses the concept as it appeared in The Indian Sociologist.Harrypotter 15:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)