Mahatma Gandhi a koncepcja zrównoważonego rozwoju wsi

Benon Gaziński

Published: 2018-10-101

No. 10 (2004)

Mahatma Gandhi Concept of Sustainable Rural Development

Benon Gaziński

Abstract

In the first part of the article attention was paid on the similarity of development experiences in India and the former socialist countries.. Through decades an economic strategy inspired by the Soviet model was chosen in India and dictated in Central and Eastern European Countries. In 1990s, principles of market economy were introduced. The experiences of first years of system transformation show that agriculture bears the burden of transformation, rather than being a beneficiary. In such context there is a need for more fundamental reflection on the place of village and agriculture in the social and economic development. Despite the rigid idealism of Mahatma Gandhi’s vision, which is closer to utopia than to economic pragmatism, reaching for it (part II of the article) enables to view the problem from the perspective of culture and self-realisation of individual. From the Gandhi’s viewpoint we can approach these sources of rural civilisation, which constitute basic moral rules rooted in religion. In conclusion the author points out to the fact that respect for natural environment, emphasis on self-sufficiency of rural communities, care for the state of infrastructure, maintenance of cultural heritage, development of local industry, small-scale production and handicraft enable to name Gandhi one of pioneers of sustainable rural development concept.

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Gandhi, India, rural development

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