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COPYRIGHT 2000 Professors World Peace Academy
Vivek Pinto
New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998
176 pages, references, index, hardcover, $29.95
"Can ethical and moral principles serve as the basis for reconstructing a harmonious, poverty-free, nonviolent and self-sufficient society?" This is the central question Vivek Pinto addresses in this fine work on India's agricultural sector. Pinto argues that agricultural development must be given a much higher priority in India and proposes Gandhian principles as a means of achieving agricultural reform. Pinto's main thesis is that Indian agriculture, and Indian society in general, can be rejuvenated by adopting village-based "peace communities" modeled after a Gandhian blueprint. Village self-sufficiency was the critical component of Gandhi's economic development strategy and Pinto argues that this vision needs to be revived if India is to have any hope of finding gainful, productive and prideful employment for its fast-growing population.
Gandhi believed the central problem of India's economy was persistent underemployment and unemployment among the masses in India's villages. Pinto seeks to solve this problem by reconstructing Indian agriculture using Gandhian principles of truth, nonviolence and love. Accordingly, in Chapter One, Pinto relies heavily on Gandhi's book, Hind Swaraj...
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