Father of the world and Mahatma Gandhi

[Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav]

Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav

Gandhian Scholar

Gandhi Research Foundation, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India

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Father of the world and Mahatma Gandhi

 

Fathers protect, support and responsible to their children. Responsible fathers’ figures may play a role in reducing behavior and psychological problems in young men and women. Father involve in his educational achievement. He will marry in his grown up age. He help him every field. Like this farmer is the father of world. He had grown up crops for the people of the world. He does not use the grains himself. He put some amount of it according his need. Remaining part of crop is sold by him for the other people. He plays his duty for world. So Mahatma Gandhi called him father of world. “India is a land of extreme poverty. Hundreds of thousands in India can get only one meal a day. This only means that Indian peasants are destitute and that a majority of them have only one meal a day. Who are these cultivators? The proprietor of thousands of acres is a cultivator; the man who owns only a bigha1 is also a cultivator; he who does not own even a bigha, but earns his food by working on another’s land, is also called a cultivator and, finally, in Champaran, I have observed thousands of cultivators who were virtually slaves both of the Sahibs and of our people and could never hope to free themselves from their bondage. We shall never know the real numbers of these different kinds of cultivators. There are particular ways of making a census report. If it is prepared for the purpose of discovering the real condition of the rural population, we

would be amazed and ashamed by the information it would disclose. It is my experience that this condition, instead of showing improvement, is deteriorating from day to day. Even in the Kheda district, which is supposed to be prosperous, man who had in the past built a decent house for himself is now no longer in a position to keep it in good repair. There is no glow of hope on the people’s faces. Their bodies are not as strong as they should be. Their children are rickety. The plague has reached villages and the inhabitants suffer from other infectious diseases as well. Big landowners are ground down under a burden of debt. One shudders as one enters a Madras village, though I have not as thorough an experience of Madras as of Kheda and Champaran. But judging from the villages I saw there, I could get a fairly clear idea of the stark poverty of the rural population of Madras.

This is India’s biggest problem. How shall it be solved? How can the cultivators’ lot be improved? These are questions we ought to ask ourselves at every step. India does not live in her towns. She lives in her villages. The aggregate of all the residents of Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and other small and big cities would come to less than one crore. If we count the number of big towns in the country, we shall find it is less than a hundred. On the other hand, the number of villages with a population of 100 to 1000 is countless. Consequently, even if we are able to improve the towns and make them prosperous, these efforts can have very little effect on the villages. Even if we improve the condition of a ditch or a pond, this does not remove the filth from an adjacent river, should it be dirty. So it is with the towns.  But just as an improvement in the river automatically brings about an improvement in the ditches around it, so if the living conditions of the farmers are improved and their standards raised, all else will follow. Navajivan will always concentrate on the cultivators’ lot. We shall later consider how this can be improve