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India of My Dreams
India of My Dreams
Table of Contents
- Foreword (Rajendra Prasad)
- Preface To the revised edition
- Preface to the first edition
- To The Reader
- India of My Dreams The Meaning of Swaraj
- In Defense of Nationalism
- Democracy in India
- India and Socialism
- India and Communism
- The Curse of Industrialism
- Class War
- Strikes
- Choice Before Labour
- Rights or Duties
- The Problem of Unemployment
- Daridranarayan
- The Gospel of Bread Labour
- Sarvodaya
- Theory of Trusteeship
- Non-violent Economy
- The Way to Equal Distribution
- India's Record of Non-violence
- The Sarvodaya State
- Satyagraha and Duragraha
- The Tiller of The Soil
- Back to The Village
- Every Village A Republic
- Panchayat Raj
- Village Industries
- What The Government Can Do
- Village Exhibitions
- The Music of The Spinning Wheel
- The Mill Industry
- The Gospel of Swadeshi
- Cow Protection
- Co-operative Cattle Farming
- Village Sanitation
- Village Health
- Village Diet
- The Village Worker
- All-around Village Service
- A Call to Youth
- The Nation's Health, Hygiene and Diet
- Drink and Drugs
- Urban Sanitation
- Evil Wrought by The Foreign Medium
- My Own Experience
- India's Cultural Heritage
- The New Education
- Basic Education
- Higher Education
- Ashram Ideal of Education
- National Language and Script
- Provincial Languages
- Hindi in The South
- A Code for Students
- Regeneration of Indian Women
- Women's Education
- Birth-Control
- Sex Education
- Children
- Communal Unity
- Varnashrama Dharma
- The Curse of Untouchability
- Religious Tolerance in India
- Proselytization
- Problems of Administration
- Reorganization of Provinces
- The Problem of Minorities
- An India Governor
- The Press
- Peace Brigades
- Indian National Congress
- India, Pakistan and Kashmir
- Foreign Settlements in India
- India and World Peace
- The message of The East
- Obiter Dicta
- Glossary
- Sources
About This Book
By : Krishna Kripalani
Compiled by : R. K. Prabhu
With a foreword by : Dr. Rajendra Prasad
ISBN : 81-7229-002-0
Printed and Published by : Jitendra T. Desai,
Navajivan Publishing House,
Ahemadabad - 380 014,
India
© Navajivan Trust, 1947
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Sources
- Amrita Bazar Patrika :
Daily English newspaper published in Calcutta - An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth : By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabas-14, 1956
- Constructive Programme :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1948 - Delhi Diary :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1948 - From Yeravada Mandir :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1945 - Gandhi in Indian Villages :
By Mahadev Desai. S. Ganesan, Madras, 1927 - Gram Udyog Patrika :
Monthly journal of All- India Village Industries Association, Wardha - Harijan :
English weekly journal edited by Gandhiji and others and published at Ahmedabad; is discontinues since 1956 - Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1958 - India's Case for Swaraj :
By Mahatma Gandhi. Yeshanand and co., Bombay, 1932 - Key to Health :
By M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1956 - Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi :
By D. G. Tendulkar, in 8 Vols. Vitthalbhai Jhaveri and D. G. Tendulkar, Bombay, 1951, onwards - Mahatma Gandhi, The Last Phase :
By Pyarelal. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, Vol. I, 1956; Vol. II, 1958 - Satyagraha in South Africa :
By M.K. Gandhi. navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad- 14, 1950 - Speeches and Writings of Mahatma Gandhi :
G. A. Natesan, Madras, 1933 - The Bombay Chronicle :
Daily newspaper published in Bombay - The Modern review :
Monthly journal published in Calcutta - To the students :
M. K. Gandhi. Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-14, 1958 - With Gandhiji in Ceylon :
By Mahadev Desai. S. Ganeshan, Madras, 1928 - Young India :
Weekly journal edited by Gandhiji and published at Ahmedabad; is discontinued since 1932
Chapter 58: Children
Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts life is inherited from its ancestors. I have always seen children successfully surmounting the effects of evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Autobiography, p. 312
The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities... Parents should seek to make their sons and daughters self-reliant, well able to earn an hones livelihood by the sweat of the brow.
India, 29-10-'31
I believe implicitly that the child is not born mischievous in the bad sense of the term. If parents would behave themselves whilst the child is growing, before it is born and after, it is a well-known fact that the child would instinctively obey the law of Truth and the law of Love... And believe me, from my experience of hundreds- I was going to say thousands-of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons of life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children. Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouth of babes. I believe it. I have noticed it in my own experience that if we would approach babes in humility and innocence, we would learned this one lesson-that what is impossible with man is child's play with God and if we have faith in that divinity which presides on the destiny of the meanest of the meanest of His creation, I have no doubt that all things are possible and in that final hope, I believe and pass my time and endeavour to obey His will. If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are it carry on a real war, we shall have to begin with children; and of they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless, idle the resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are converted with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the while world is hungering.
Young India, 19- 11- 31