India, March 25 -- * Title : Development as Swaraj: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Future

* Author : Sumanas Koulagi

* Year : 2023

* Pages : 160

* Price : Rs. 875

* Publisher : Routledge

By Ravi Joshi, Former Joint Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat

Human societies, inspired by the ideas of great philosophers, social and political reformers have often tried out different methods of organising societies with varying paradigms. In so doing, they questioned the organising principles of their society and tried to change its dominant norms and values.

Gandhiji, a philosopher and a political reformer combined, evolved his own manifesto to shape and guide the lives of his countrymen in 1909 in a small booklet called 'Hind Swaraj.' For h...