Gandhi’s Critique of Modernity: A Philosophical and Political Analysis

Abstract

Modernity is the concept which is central to human life. This study is important because it share certain attitude and values. This paper aims to understand the idea of Gandhiji’s critique on modernity. Information for my paper has been sourced from various books written by Gandhi and others, government publications, articles, newspapers etc. This paper is basically, exploratory in nature relying on secondary research such as reviewing available literature. These papers will also discussion about the critique of modernity by expressism, non-religious and religious groups, Islamic, Tagore’s and Kant. It is found that Gandhiji’s critique on modernity has touched almost all the aspect such as Modern Civilization, caste and women, colonialism and capitalism, quality of life and religion aspect, which are having relevance on 21st century. Again it is also found that critique is nothing but first of all is the critique of ourselves. At last it is can be concluded by stating that Gandhiji was a pre-modernist.