Concept of Swaraj and Mahatma Gandhi : A Critical Analysis by Dhananjaya Kumar Rout https://magazines.odisha.gov.in/Orissareview/2015/Oct/engpdf/17-22.pdf
Some excerpts: Of course, constructive workers were abstaining from direct political struggles. But on crucial occasions Gandhi enlisted their services for political mobilization. For instance, the seventy nine volunteers of Gandhi in the Dandi salt march team were all constructive workers...
the constructive work organisations founded by Gandhi and the Sarvodaya Mandals and Sarva Seva Sangh are precursors and role models of people's movement, Voluntary organisations and some of the Non-Government Organisations which are launched in various parts of India at present.
it necessary to evolve a mechanism to achieve the twin objectives of empowering the people and empowering the state. It was for this that he developed the two pronged strategy of resistance to the state and reconstruction of the state through voluntary and participatory social action.
Gandhi's idea of Swaraj will show that it can provide a more passable theoretical device to find and assess the fights of the burdened populates. As pointed out previous Gandhi's idea of Swaraj is a complete one and summarises the separate human person and life in an all-inclusive outline. It visualises the liberal deliverance of all from all cruel structures and so can be equated with redemption.
Although the word Swaraj means self-rule, Gandhi gave it the content of an integral revolution that encompasses all spheres of life, at the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment, ceaseless self-purification and growing selfreliance. Gandhi was undaunted by the task of implementing such a utopian vision in India. He believed that by transforming enough individuals and communities, society at large would change.
Comment: My thoughts went back to the volume to commemorate Niyogi -- "Sangharsh aur Nirmaan". Even so, one of his followers was incarcerated for around two years, and effectively externed from her area of work.
Why is it that most Sangharsh-wadis do token "Nirman" and those who are doing "nirmaan" do token rallies!. In this artilce, speaks about how Gandhi's contrutive workers joined in the Salt satyagraha.
After R Kothari's Non-Party Political Process and Lokayan, I find that the "process" among the alternatives is restricted to the organisations workers. For some reason, in some cases FCRA I suppose, the people or the masses are left completely apolitical..
Perhaps this is the reason that when it comes to voting, or getting work done for one own needs most of the constituents of the various so called isolated alternatives, we the alternatives have to take our share of the blame for the rise of the Right in this country.. Even those involved in "andolan" as was seen in 2022 elections, seem to be party-politically-ineffective..
Thus.. is Sangharsh and Nirmaan part of a duality, or a one ( as in "atman") or both ( as in dependent orignation)