The Meaning of Modern State: The term modem state is confusing because in the continuity of time no specific age can be treated with special importance and can be called modern. Today what we call modern, after few decades or a century the term modern may be obsolete. So the term "modern" is a relative one and is not always [...]
Introductory: It is difficult to confine Gandhi's political ideas within certain articulated principles and this is chiefly due to the fact that he was not, in formal sense, a political theorist. So far as his theory of state is concerned it can be assertively said that he was against concentration of power, violence, traditional theory of sovereignty etc. His inordinate [...]
Gandhi on State and Violence: In Gandhi's assessment, the state (Western type) was the symbol of violence in concentrated form. In order to ensure allegiance from the citizens the state (which means its authority) applies coercion or violent measures mercilessly. Once he said "the individual has a soul but the state is a soulless machine, the stale can never be [...]