ABSTRACT
The industrialists and the wealthy knew that Gandhi was genuinely striving for a society based on equality — political, social and economic. Religious leadership too could not go along with the Gandhian perspective; his principle of Sarva Dhrama Samanatva was a bit too threatening for them. Gandhi had also experimented with an entirely new system of education for the country — Nayee Talim. The educators and political leaders were too influenced and impressed by the British system of education. Life in India during British rule, even before the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, had become extremely impoverished, socially as well as economically. Agriculture in India, as in China, had been practiced for at least forty centuries. On account of the economic degradation of the peasant and most of the landlords, Indian agriculture was greatly destroyed.
