Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Equality

Question:

Who among the following is associated with 'Sapta Kranti' which for him was the ideal of socialism?

Options:

Deen Dayal Upadhyaya

J.P. Narayan

Charan Singh

Rammanohar Lohia

Correct Answer:

Rammanohar Lohia

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4 - Rammanohar Lohia

Rammanohar Lohia is associated with 'Sapta Kranti' which for him was the ideal of socialism.

 

In India the eminent socialist thinker Rammanohar Lohia, identified five kinds of inequalities that need to be fought against simultaneously: inequality between man and woman, inequality based on skin colour, caste-based inequality, colonial rule of some countries over others, and, of course, economic inequality. This might appear a self-evident idea today. But during Lohia’s time it was common for the socialists to argue that class inequality was the only form of inequality worth struggling against. Other inequalities did not matter or would end automatically if economic inequality could be ended. Lohia argued that each of these inequalities had independent roots and had to be fought separately and simultaneously. He did not speak of revolution in the singular. For him struggle against these five inequalities constituted five revolutions. He added two more revolutions to this list : revolution for civil liberties against unjust encroachments on private life and revolution for non-violence, for renunciation of weapons in favour of Satyagraha. These were the seven revolutions or Sapta Kranti which for Lohia was the ideal of socialism.