Gandhi Marx and India

This book is an attempt to present an alternative path of progress for the alternative path of progress for the country. India has witnessed a disastrous failure. The author brings out not only the deeping of economic crisis in sharp focus but also, the increasing non-development syndrome in terms of rising joblessness and concomitant violence and brutality at an ever increasing pace in the country. It has been argued that following the present policy of development, India will be far away from achieving the dream of Gandhi, that independent India would "contain intelligent human beings. They will not live in dirt and darkness as animals. Men and women will be free and able to hold their own against any one in the world. There will be neither plague nor cholera nor small pox; no one will be idle, no one will wallow in luxury." The author argues for the Gandhian path of progress which is not far removed from Marx and is modified in view of lessons drawn from history, particularly, after the death of Gandhi including the collapse of the Socialist state of USSR. This path of progress envisages a self-reliant growth of the economy with full employment, petty producers' dominance and social justice based mainly on available resources in the country and a form of government which is a decentralised democracy in the true sense of the term. Since neither imperialism nor its lackeys will permit this transformation, an issue based struggle for real democracy, social and self-reliance is the only alternative.