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This paper is an engagement with the sources of morality in Gandhi’s worldview. It tries to trace the genesis of the conceptual categories of Gandhi’s worldview and the structures of meaning involved in it. It categorically accentuates the role of Ancient Hindu philosophical tradition as a source of derivation for Gandhi. His worldview sets a unique template in logically integrating the traditional values to design a pragmatic life philosophy. The conceptual categories inter alia truth, non violence, satyagraha, sarvodaya and trusteeship could be understood in its etymological connection with different sources of Ancient Hindu Tradition. Besides exploring the literary sources that shaped young Gandhi’s conceptual universe, the paper navigates the sacrosanct conceptual resources of Vedas, Upanishads and other sources of Hindu philosophical tradition and its sister religions that had had imprint on Gandhi’s articulation of Truth, Satyagraha and Ahimsa.

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