A Comparative Study of M. K. Gandhi's Hind Swaraj and John Ruskin's Unto This Last

The present paper proposes to investigate the different aspects of Mahatma Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj and John Ruskin’s Unto This Last. Hind Swaraj and Unto This Last deal with common socio-economic aspects, other problems related to modern civilisation, dehumanisation, the true nature of wealth, etc. Both texts share the same arena of socio-economic factors and evaluation of machinery and its impacts on human civilisation. The purpose of Ruskin and Gandhi’s writing is to establish a Utopian society but their views roar upon the hostility of machinery, and capitalism. Regarding their views, Gandhi and Ruskin followed the same path when discussing the political economy. However, Ruskin’s and Gandhi’s views share common aspects but the dissimilarity between the two was that Ruskin was more willing about the working class and labourer by providing them equal wages and the same way of living as the rich. But Gandhi’s view of Sarvodaya acts as an umbrella that covers the poor as well as the rich, Brahmans as well as Dalits, and women as well as men. So, adopting ‘Sarvodaya’ the utopian dream will not remain a dream for any society; it is the most beautiful aspect of Sarvodaya.