Young India and Navajivan
Also called: Young India, Navajivan · Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Class 12, Ch 3 "Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement"
Meaning
Young India (in English) and Navajivan (in Gujarati) were weekly papers that Gandhi edited from 1919. He edited Young India until 1932. Through these papers he explained his ideas to readers across India: non-violence, swaraj (self-rule), khadi (hand-spun cloth) and Hindu–Muslim unity. Historians use them as a record of Gandhi's public voice during the Non-Cooperation years.
Example
In Young India, Gandhi criticised the "craze" for labour-saving machinery. He argued that it threw people out of work. He defended khaddar (khadi) and the daily use of the charkha (spinning wheel) as a way for the poor to earn a living and stand on their own feet.
Don't confuse with
- Harijan: a later weekly that Gandhi started in 1933, mainly to fight untouchability.
- Hind Swaraj (1909): a book Gandhi wrote, not a newspaper. It argued that British rule survived only because Indians cooperated with it.
Related concepts
- Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
- Harijan
- A Bunch of Old Letters
- Nehru-Patel strands in Congress
- Fortnightly Reports