Swaraj

Alternative forms

• svaraj

Origin

Hindi स्वराज

Noun

1. (India, historical) self-rule
• July 21, 2015, , Sustainable development is failing but there are alternatives to capitalism, This includes buen vivir (or sumak kawsay or suma qamaña), a culture of life with different names and varieties emerging from indigenous peoples in various regions of South America; ubuntu, with its emphasis on human mutuality (“I am because we are”) in South Africa; radical ecological democracy or ecological swaraj, with a focus on self-reliance and self-governance, in India; and degrowth, the hypothesis that we can live better with less and in common, in western countries.

Derived terms

• swarajism
• swarajist