Ep 272: The Ferment of Our Founders
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Foundations of Inda's Democracy
Gandis cana sgenerous question around prohibition of primitive nature of taxation along salt. He's saying, well, i'm going to walk 60 odd miles or 80 odd kilometers, down 200km and break open the salt on the open shore linesn up as a public defiance of the state of the r prmitive. You know, he walks with a handful of his, you no followers, and by the you when he finishes the act, hundreds of thousands have walked with him. His politics is that it's a politics of the plane, of breaking the abstract stuff with something which can be embodied,. And it's at the level of the self.
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