Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

D. K. Bedekar

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Our understanding of the State, as a social phenomenon, is coloured by three pre-conceived notions : (1) Our traditional attitude, centred round our ideal of a benevolent Monarch, loosely ruling over a rural community governed by its own autonomous village panchayats. (2) Our newly-acquired preference for a parliamentary democracy, and for a State, which interferes least with social institutions and undertakes, only when directly necessary, social welfare measures. (3) Our ambivalent attitude towards a State which undertakes rigorous planning, taxation or investment programmes. We desire to have a benevolent, socialist dictatorship, but we equally desire to have decentralization, freedom of capitalist enterprise, etc.

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D. K. Bedekar

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The book under review was first published in 1915 and has been re-printed this year. The book is in Marathi, the language of about 30 million people living in a contiguous region in western India.

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