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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 14 2022 | None
THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ‘GRAMGEETA’ : SOME OBSERVATIONS
SANDIP JOTIRAM BHUYEKAR
Pages: 403-408
Abstract
Sustainable development meets the needs of the present generation without hampering the ability of future generations. The views on sustainable development gained wide recognition after 1987. Prior to that in 1955 Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj, one of the Marathi poets wrote a poetry collection ‘Gramgeeta’. It is purely based on the theme of sustainable villages. He used the ancient poetry form owee for making the poems. Like the modern scientific textbooks, he made 41 individual chapters covering various aspects of rural development in India. At that time there was less urbanization in India as compared to Europe and western countries. In the present paper an attempt is made to find a correlation between the conceptual writing in Gramgeeta and goals of sustainable development. Original Marathi text of ‘Gramgeeta’ is used as a primary source material for the present study. With his foresightedness TukdojiMaharaj addressed several environmental concerns related to the village and also came forward with the possible remedies to it. Gramgeeta works as a Bible for rural development with a sustainable view. Most of the sustainable development goals mentioned in the agenda 2030 were already addressed in Gramgeeta. Though these solutions are on a local scale they are based on the theme ‘Think globally and act Locally’. It's quite amazing that a poet addresses almost all environmental concerns of the present era before 70 years, i.e. just after Indian independence.
Keywords
Sustainable development, Gramgeeta, RashtrasantTukdojiMaharaj,Sustainable Village
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