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Sarvodaya
Sarvodaya (Devanagari: सर्वोदय, Gujarati: સર્વોદય) is a term meaning 'universal uplift' or 'progress of all'. The term was first coined by Mahatma Gandhi as the title of his 1908 translation of John Ruskin's tract on political economy, ''Unto This Last'', and Gandhi came to use the term for the ideal of his own political philosophy.〔Bondurant, Joan. ''Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict.'' (Princeton, 1958) p 156.〕 Later Gandhians, like the Indian nonviolence activist Vinoba Bhave, embraced the term as a name for the social movement in post-independence India which strove to ensure that self-determination and equality reached all strata of Indian society.
== Origins and Gandhi's political ideal ==
Gandhi received a copy of Ruskin's ''Unto This Last'' from a British friend, Mr. Henry Polak, while working as a lawyer in South Africa in 1904. In his ''Autobiography'', Gandhi remembers the twenty-four hour train ride to Durban (from when he first read the book), being so in the grip of Ruskin's ideas that he could not sleep at all: "I determined to change my life in accordance with the ideals of the book."〔''Autobiography'', part IV, chapter xviii.〕 As Gandhi construed it, Ruskin's outlook on political-economic life extended from three central tenets:
Four years later, in 1908, Gandhi rendered a paraphrased translation of Ruskin's book into his native tongue of Gujarati. He entitled the book ''Sarvodaya'', a compound (samāsa) he invented from two Sanskrit roots: ''sarva'' (all) and ''udaya'' (uplift) -- "the uplift of all" (or as Gandhi glossed it in his autobiography, "the welfare of all").
Although inspired by Ruskin, the term would for Gandhi come to stand for a political ideal of his own stamp. (Indeed Gandhi was keen to distance himself from Ruskin's more conservative ideas.)〔See Bondurant (1958), pp. 156-159.〕 The ideal which Gandhi strove to put into practice in his ashrams was, he hoped, one that he could persuade the whole of India to embrace, becoming a light to the other nations of the world. The Gandhian social ideal encompassed the dignity of labor, an equitable distribution of wealth, communal self-sufficiency and individual freedom.〔Bondurant (1958), chapter 5.〕
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