Perspectives on self-governance or local-governance in India: From Gandhi to new social movements

Desai, P.S.

Perspectives on self-governance or local-governance in India: From Gandhi to new social movements

Desai, P.S.

Source : 50 Years of Panchayat Raj in Goa: Retrospect and Prospects, Ed. by: Alaknanda Shringare, P.S. Desai and Rahul Tripathi. Broadway Publishing House, Panaji. 2016; 7-20.

URI: http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/4812

Date: 2016

Document Type: Book chapter

Abstract:

Self-governance or local-governance is an idea that received attention from various thinkers from ancient India to modern India. The very presence of continuous discussion on it makes it an important idea in the realm of Indian political thought. It is an important idea but is not without any negative note. However, the very negative note has enhanced its importance than decline. Both negative and positive notes are required to understand it as a new hope in the demagogic incarnations of democracy in India.

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