Political Utopia in Gandhi's Sarvodaya

Abstract

The present research aims to explore the issues of political utopia founded in the philosophy of Gandhi. Sarvodaya by Gandhi has been analyzed implementing the tool of political utopia, a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status in certain respects. At the very least, social equality includes equal rights under the law, such as security, voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, property rights, and equal access to social goods and services. A society should be such that people across the board are able to enjoy civil and political rights and also the benefits of progress without any discrimination. But if the society explicitly or implicitly discriminates against some section of its populance then the feeling of discontentment will creep in. While dealing with Ghandi’s notion of Sarvodaya, the research analyzes the correspondence of Gandhian Sarvodaya with that of Tagore’s utopia. Therefore, it is important for societies to ensure that no group feels relatively deprived vis-à-vis other groups. Different and unique Gandhi’s notion has been proved fruitful for the creation of the just society.