ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to discuss and analyze Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi’s engagement with law. In Hind Swaraj, Gandhi attacked lawyers as an evil of Western civilization. Gandhi did not reject law per se but believed it was to be engaged with. There are some striking resonances between Gandhian practice in colonial South Africa, colonial India and independent India. In Gandhi’s life’s work, just as a link can be established between politics and spirituality, a link can be established between legal philosophy and legal activism, for it can be said that the engagement he had in mind was that between legal theory and practice. A human rights lawyer, he also criticized some aspects of it. And that is something law students can aspire towards.
