swaraj
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swaraj (plural swarajes)
- (India, historical) self-rule
- 1925, W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Negro Mind Reaches Out”, in Alain LeRoy Locke, editor, The New Negro: An Interpretation, page 404:
- Are the brown Indians to share equally in the ruling of the British Empire or are they an inferior race? And curiously enough, the battle on this point is impending not simply in the unchecked movement toward "swaraj" in India but in Africa—in the Union of South Africa and in Kenya.
- 2015 July 21, “Sustainable development is failing but there are alternatives to capitalism”, in The Guardian:
- This includes buen vivir (or sumak kawsay or suma qamaña), a culture of life with different names and varieties emerging from indigenous peoples in various regions of South America; ubuntu, with its emphasis on human mutuality (“I am because we are”) in South Africa; radical ecological democracy or ecological swaraj, with a focus on self-reliance and self-governance, in India; and degrowth, the hypothesis that we can live better with less and in common, in western countries.