ABSTRACT
Contemporary and historical scholarship on Hind Swaraj, concerned with freedom, independence, world order, social justice and identity, implies a call for a careful and nuanced focus on peace and its determinants. The project of independence and human development, as articulated in Hind Swaraj, would therefore need to remain ever vigilant to the threats to peace and sensitive to the conditions supportive of peace. The process of peacebuilding could entail the promotion of the values of tolerance, respect and unity, and the establishment of truth commissions or other similar mechanisms as a vehicle for acknowledging human rights violations and redistributive justice measures like land distribution and empowerment of those marginalised from economic resources. The gross domestic product utilises twenty-three indicators, which include a focus on a nation’s level of military expenditure to its relations with neighbouring states and the level of respect for human rights.
