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COURSE: GANDHI’S POLITICAL THOUGHT (MGP-004)
TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT (TMA)
Course Code: MGP-004
Assignment Code: MGP-004/ASST/TMA/2025-26
Marks: 100
Answer five questions in all, selecting at least two questions from each section. Each question is to be answered in about 500 words. Each question carries 20 marks.
SECTION-I
1.What does Gandhi mean by self-rule? Why does Gandhi insist that there is a need to bridge the gap between the elite and the masses to bring about self-rule?
2.Why does Gandhi consider equality as an all-pervasive value? How does Gandhi propose to achieve economic equality?
3.What impact do colonialism and imperialism have on the state and its citizens, and their socio economic life?
4.Critically analyse the uniqueness of the Gandhian thought process in imbibing liberalism and constitutionalism.
5.How did Gandhi politically reject socialism and communism’s totalitarianism, class conflict, violence, and state coercion in favour of decentralised, non-violent governance via moral persuasion and ethical autonomy?
SECTION-II
Write a short note on each of the following questions in about 250 words:
6.a) Reasons for Gandhi’s admiration of British institutions.
b) Gandhi’s views on citizenship.
7.a) Gandhi’s conception of ‘Gram Swaraj’.
b) Role of the individual in Satyagraha.
8.a) Purity of means for realising the ends.
b) Gandhi’s concept of power.
9.a) Role of authority in an anarchist society.
b) Change in Gandhi’s pacifism.
10.a) Gandhi’s views on fascism.
b) Gandhi on structural violence.
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