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  1. What was the reason for Gandhiji’s support to decentralisation of power ?
    1. Decentralisation ensures more participation of the people into democracy
    2. India had decentralisation of power in the past
    3. Decentralisation was essential for the economic development of the country
    4. Decentralisation can prevent communalism
Correct Option: C

Gandhi’s greatest contribution to the social thought of this century is perhaps his insistence on decentralization of the means of production (i.e. say economic power). According to him, large-scale industrialism is at the base of the centralization of political power in few hands. It is in the very nature of largescale industries to centralize economic power in the hands of a few individuals. Under capitalism this power comes to be concentrated in the hands of individual capitalists and under socialism it is arrogated by managers, technocrats and bureaucrats.



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