Starting probably with Gandhi, but all throughout the twentieth century, it is my belief that Indian societies (not that I think India does not preserve some blatant forms of injustice) have been both judicious and clever in protecting the importance of ethics to maintain forms of social stability and power. By ethics, I mean social [...]
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Thoughts from India II
Posted in Ethics, india, Middle East, Religion, tagged colonialism, definition of ethics, forms of injustice, importance of ethics, indian societies, levels of consciousness on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Thoughts from India
Posted in Cultural practices, History, india, tagged colonialism, india on February 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Gandhi’s non-violence philosophy did not mean much without in its backdrop a highly clever strategy of recapturing the means of production (silk, cotton, steel, salt, spices and so on) of the Indian economy from the hands of the British empire through large scale mobilization and ritual celebrations of all sorts. Once it was just logical [...]
