Abstract:
This article attempts to elucidate how Mahatma Gandhi's ideas on Gram Swaraj have been the basis around which Tibetan refugees in India have organised themselves. With its focus on the two Tibetan settlements in Bailakuppe, the objectives have been twofold i.e. to understand the community's efforts at practising direct democracy in exile and to delineate the various organisations that helps the settlements in sustaining gram swaraj.
