Anarchism in India

In India, anarchism never took the form of formally named "anarchism". The relevance of anarchism in India primarily focus on the aspects anarchism have for national and social movements.

History

First the local conditions have to be considered in which it developed to analyse the development of the heavily anarchistic Satyagraha movement in India. In ancient Hindu thought, there are predecessors to the concept of a stateless society. For example, the Satya Yuga is a description of a possible anarchist society in which people govern themselves based on the universal law of dharma. But at the same time a stateless society is seen as a possibility, much of Hindu political thought focus on the inherently evil nature of man and therefore the "divine right" of kings to govern, so long as they protect the people from harm. In case kings don't govern on the basis of dharma, Chanakyasutras allow that it is better not to have king then have one who want in discipline. Obviously this is a contrast with the Western notion of a universal divine right of kings regardless of the consequences.

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