The post-90s era heralded a new world economic order where the neoliberals claimed that free competitive market will bring about prosperity, happiness and a better standard of living among the people. On the contrary, the fierce economic competition for establishing an economic hegemonic attitude of the western nation over the developing third world nations has brought- forth new social system materialism. Here everyone’s worth is determined by what he possesses not by what he is.unlike hedonistic Gandhism holds different and opposite concepts of pain and pleasure. Gandhism, like a behaviouralist in dealing with the socio-economic problems, adopts the strategy of empiricism. His experiment of truth, nonviolence, and Satyagraha in dealing the British colonial power was not an example of practical idealism rather than a utopian idealism.Unlike the early liberals Gandhiji didn't follow the policy of persuasion and surrender and begging before the imperialist powers.He never compromised with British administration over his modern political ideologies of liberty, equality, fraternity, justice and safeguarding the eternal natural human rights. Mahatma Gandhi’s role in Champaran Movement in 1917, Rowellet Act in 1918, Non-cooperation Movement in 1920, Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930 and salt Satyagraha in 1931 leading to Gandhi Irwin pact culminated into a great Indian Revolution of 8 August 1942 paving the way for Indian Independence on the 15th August 1947.
Mahatma Gandhi during the course of his social, political and economic movement held the dependency theory responsible to the backwardness of India .only hard labor and proper utilization of the indigenous natural resources and their even distribution among masses only can lead the society towards sustainable development. Unlike the monopolistic capitalist strategy of development, Gandhian economy believes in economic participation in production activities by the majority of the rural population. The welfare activities of modern states have been increased many folds in the Postliberal economy, but yet the gulf between the poor and the rich has been widened. The poor and deprived, if live in fear for their very survival, the new middle-class rich feel self-alienated, dissatisfied and disintegrated. Gandhian theory of state aspires to establish a social system based upon ideals of cohesiveness, spirit, will, and love for humanism. Gandhian ideas of unemployment, trusteeship, world peace, , religion, the spiritualization of politics, respect and empowerment to women and the most vulnerable section of the society, etc can only help in achieving the objectives mentioned in the preamble of the Indian constitution which strives to establish a just and an egalitarian social o.
_Manoj kumar Upadhyay
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