Indian Civilization and Culture Short Notes| 12th English Bihar Board

Indian Civilization and Culture Short Notes| 12th English Bihar Board 

About writer

Name-Mahatma Gandhi
nationality-India
lovingly called-Bapu or father of nation
born on-2 oct 1869
died on-30 jan 1948
wrote for/associated with-young India
famous weapon-Truth and Non-Violence
Autobiography-My Experiment with truth

About Chapter

Name-Indian Civilization and Culture
Type-Essay
Taken From/Extract of -My experiment with truth

Theme of the chapter

This is an essay where Mahatma Gandhi has compared Indian civilization to the western civilization. And eventually he has suggested we Indians to shun it at all cost.

विषय-वस्तु

यह एक लेख है जहाँ महात्मा गाँधी ने भारतीय सभ्यता की तुलना पश्चिमी सभ्यता से की है. एवं अंततः हम भारतियों को ये सलाह दिया है की हम किसी भी परिस्थिति में इस से दूर रहें.

Important Notes:

• The civilization that India has evolved is not to be beaten in the world.

• India remains immovable and that is her glory.

• Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

• The Gujarati equivalent for civilization means 'good conduct'.

• The mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied.

• It was not that we did not know how to invent machinery, but our forefathers knew that, if we set our hearts after such things, we would become slaves.

• Our ancestors were satisfied with small villages. They enjoyed true Home Rule.

• The tendency of the Indian civilization is to elevate the moral being, that of the Western civilization is to propagate immorality.

• Indian should cling to the Indian civilization even as a child clings to the mother's breast.

• Gandhiji has learnt one lesson from it and that is that we must shun it at all costs.

• Indian Civilization worships morality whereas western civilization worships materiality.

• The distinguishing characteristic of modern civilization is indefinite multiplicity of human wants. Attic Civilization belongs to Greece

• Our civilization, our culture, our swaraj depend not upon multiplying our wants-self -indulgence, but upon restricting wants-self denial.

• Western civilization will ruin India if we endeavour to copy it.

• The Golden Fleece-A very difficult thing to find.

• We should spend our live on the motto of a western philosopher Plain living and high thinking