Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan, Wardha

  Gandhi’s   Sevagram: A Laboratory of Non-violence A presentation on the occasion of the 91st anniversary of Sevagram By Siby Kollappallil Joseph Sevagram Ashram is perhaps the most significant site in our history—a place where one can still feel the pulse of India’s freedom struggle. It was here, during the final and most profound chapter of his life, that Mahatma Gandhi undertook his most radical experiments in human living, spanning the socio-economic and political realms. Gandhi's arrival at Segaon on April 30 1936 His arrival in Wardha was not a mere change of location; it was the result of a specific historical turning point. Sevagram was fundamentally different from his earlier communities, such as the Phoenix Settlement and Tolstoy Farm in South Africa, or the Satyagraha Ashrams in Kochrab and Sabarmati. It was not an "ashram" in the traditional sense; it was a  laboratory of non-violence , where principles were tested on the ground to be applied both...