Gandhi developed the philosophy of trusteeship to address economic inequality and establish a more egalitarian society. Trusteeship proposes that private property is permitted only to ensure society's welfare, with individuals acting as trustees of wealth rather than selfish owners. It also advocates for fixing minimum and maximum wages to reduce inequality. Gandhi believed trusteeship could establish a stateless system where village communities are self-regulated, based on non-violence and voluntary cooperation.

1. Gandhi’s life in india

2. Trusteship. Introduction
• Mahatma Gandhi is known for his social, political, and economic philosophy. He has
• expressed his thoughts on various significant political, economic, social, cultural and
• religious matters from time to time. With the help of his ideas, views and philosophy he
• was trying to solve the issues of society and individual. His whole life was an unending
• experiment. Most of his philosophy discussed in his autobiography as ‘my experiment
• with truth’. He was very much influenced by various things. In which the most prominent
• one is the Bhagavad Gita—that has moulded his thought in which it has been mentioned
• that ‘enjoy thy wealth by renouncing it’ (Gandhi, 1960). Along with this, the Jain monk
• Beacharji Swami, he was the person, who helped him to proceed towards United
• Kingdom for the higher education. Before Gandhiji’s left London the monk administered
• him, and both took three vows. These were not to touch the wine, woman, and meat. It
• can be said that Gandhi was very much influenced by the Buddhism so in his philosophy.
• It is also reflecting that he has tried to use the peace, corporation, sacrifice and selfpunishment. These components have
also reflected in his theory of trusteesh

3. WHAT IS TRUSTEESHIP
• For the first time, Gandhi has used the term ‘trusteeship’ in his book Hind Swaraj or
• Indian Home Rule (1909). Most of hispolitical philosophy can be found in large number
• of written documents like books and articles written by him especially in the journals and
• magazines like Young ndia and the Harijan. Some of his work can also be traced from his
• speeches delivered at different places. Most of his philosophy was based on Karma—
• practical ideas which she experienced in his life with truth and non-violence. He has laid
• stress on individual. he has taken individuals as starting point for the social, economic
• and political progress. According to him, the progress of the society is depending on each
• individual that's why he has given the preference to the individuals.

4. ORIGIN OF TRUSTEESHIP
• He believes in the equal distribution of wealth among the people. in this regard, he has
• given the theory of trusteeship. His philosophy of trusteeship was influenced from
• Raskin’s work Until The Last and Bhagvad Gita, which he read in the 1889. Gandhi
• become Karmyogi yogi as a result ofreading the Gita. Gandhi mentioned that by nature
• all human beings are equal and there are no forms of inequality present among them.
• The philosophy of trusteeship originated because of the socio-economic crisis. Gandhi
• has found that people are running out of patients and looking for a system alternative for
• socialism and the capitalism. The Socialism assumes that assume social unit no
• individuality of individual they are assured to bread at the cost of freedom on the other
• hand capitalism recognises the individuality of man but it is unable to provide track to all
• thus there is necessity to a new system which provides both freedom and wisdom to all
• the person the concept of trusteeship can only provide a such system the concept of
• successive drive by Mahatma Gandhiji after the jurisprudence Snells Principles of Equity
• and Gita.

5. Features of Trusteeship
No recognition to private ownership of property: Gandhi has not given any recognition to
the right of private ownership of property except if it is permitted by the society for it's on
welfare. Gandhi has seen the private property as a means to divide the society between
rich and poor class. he has also seen that it is private property which corrupts human
mind and their soul. Thus, he was against the private property and the capitalist system.
Under the state regulated trusteeship an individual will not be free to hold or use his
wealth for selfish satisfaction or disregard of the interests of society.It does not exclude
bless lative regulation of the ownership.
Fixing minimum wages: In the theory of trusteeship, Gandhi has proposed the model to
fix a minimum wage, even so a limit should be fixed for the maximum income that
should be allowed to any person in society. the difference between such minimum and

6. Philosophy of Trusteeship
• Gandhi was philosophical anarchist. he has criticised the role of state on the ethical
• historical and economic grounds. As Gandhi has mentioned that “the state represents
• violence in a concentrated and organised form. the individual has a soul but as the state is
• a soulless machine it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very
• existence” The idea of the Gandhi was to establish the stateless system where the social
• life will be self-regulated. The ideal system would be the federation of satyagrahi’s
• village communities. As he has mentioned “Society based on non-violence can only be a
• group settled in villages in which voluntary corporation is the condition of dignified and
• the peaceful existenc

7. Conclusion
• In the national freedom struggle of India, the people of India undertook many political
• movements, which played a key role in resisting the colonial rulers and opposing the
• British political establishment. Amongst the list of freedom movements, the Swadeshi
• movement was one of the earliest socio-economic movements, which formed the great
• stride towards nationalism and Swaraj in the annals of modern Indian history. The call for
• Swadeshi was a holistic expression of veritable soul of Indian-ness or Bhartiyata. This
• was in contrary to the earlier version of the Moderate Indian nationalists, many of whom
• were sympathetic with western culture and education, given the way they interpreted
• west.

8. ANALYSIS
• Gandhi was pre-eminent leader. His philosophy was not theory was not theoretical but
• based on practical thoughts. He knew that both physical and intellectual ability differs
• from man to man. He said that some persons are mentally stronger than the physically
• stronger and other are vis-à-vis.Gandhi's theory of trusteeship can be is elevated as:
• Establish Egalitarian Society: The theory of trusteeship has tried to solve the social and
• economic inequality in the society. He was influenced by Ruskin 'unto the last'. Ruskin
• has talked about the equal distribution of national wealth. With the help of trusteeship
• Gandhi's has tried to transform the capitalist order (rich versus poor) in the society. He
• was trying to establish the egalitarian society. Under the model of trusteeship, he has not
• given any space to the capitalism system. However, he has given the space to the owners
• of means of productions class to reform themselves. Gandhi has also mentioned that the
• equitable distribution will ensure human dignity and not char