%0 Journal Article
%T Hind Swaraj: Reading Gandhi¡¯s Critique of Modernity in Tehran
%A Kian Tajbakhsh
%J Social Change
%@ 0976-3538
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0049085717743831
%X In both Iran and India, many social and cultural obstacles to authentic and humane social development are often traced to complexities caused by an encounter with Western modernity. In this essay, I explore what the Iranian reception of modernity might gain from the Indian conversation on Hind Swaraj. I show that Gandhi¡¯s thought contains two different critiques of modernity. The first radical option entails the rejection of modernity and its core institutions such as the nation-state; the second proposes adapting traditions, including religions, within the framework of a pluralistic democracy so as to craft alternative versions of the nation-state. The objective of the essay is to examine those aspects of the latter strand of Gandhi¡¯s thought that may be compatible with Iranian realities. A further goal is to put Iranian and Indian voices together in a constructive dialogue with one another
%K Gandhi
%K Hind Swaraj
%K Iranian modernity
%K pluralism
%K social development
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0049085717743831