Economics: Where People Matter

Aruna Roy ()
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Aruna Roy: Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)

A chapter in Social Entrepreneurship and Gandhian Thoughts in the Post-COVID World, 2023, pp 297-318 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The quotations in this chapter represent the views of collectives in public action. Authorship, in this case, is no more than a task of painstakingly putting together, hopefully, an intelligible selection to argue a point of view. Gandhi and many involved in social action believed that real development could not take place without the participation of the people and an acknowledgment of their equality, in both knowledge and capacities, to address change. Accessing equality is a struggle in a caste-ridden and stratified social structure. Gandhi and Ambedkar knew this, though they advocated different methods to deal with it. This chapter looks at Gandhi’s respect for peoples’ knowledge and his acknowledgment that practice, with common sense and vision, is the beginning of understanding the sociopolitical economy. Ambedkar ensured that, with constitutional guarantees, the vulnerable could claim democratic and economic rights and access what is rightfully theirs.

Keywords: Gandhi; Civil society; COVID-19; Public action; Tilonia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4008-0_14

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