![]() Swami Vivekananda derived a form of individualism from the Bhagavad Gita, arguing that " liberty is the first condition of growth". ![]() It was through these concepts that Indian anarchism developed out of "non-statism", which held it better to build an alternative society that would make the state redundant, rather than destroying the state outright (as in the Western conception of anti-statism). ![]() Where much of Hindu political philosophy upheld the divine right of kings, the Chanakya sutras held that "it is better to not to have a king then have one who is wanting in discipline". In Hindu cosmology, the Satya Yuga described a possible stateless society where people were governed only by the "universal natural law of dharma". Although Hinduism developed a hierarchical caste system, the establishment of a state was also discouraged by the concept of dharma, which was seen as sufficient to govern society. Buddhism and Jainism both taught of a prehistoric state of nature, in which people lived in harmony and their needs were satisfied by the land. The foundations for anarchism in India were laid by a number of different religious traditions in the subcontinent. Anarchism was also an influence on the revolutionary movement, inspiring the works of Har Dayal, M. ![]() Anarchism in India first emerged within the Indian independence movement, gaining particularly notoriety for its influence on Mohandas Gandhi's theory of Sarvodaya and his practice of nonviolent resistance. ![]()
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