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indulging in crimes and present model of development. Disparity in society and growth of terrorism are their results. Therefore, it is the prime necessity to seek the alternative model based on non-violence and balanced growth. This non-violent model of development, according to him, will consist of the ideas of purity of means, voluntary ceiling on private property, limitations on consumption, distribution of the produced materials and strict control over the production of luxuries and their import. He advises that both the individual and the Government must adhere to these principles in their respective domains. We will develop ourselves more if we limit our needs. Supplementing Yuvāchārya Sri's view, Prof. Ramjee Singh, ViceChancellor of Jain Vishva Bharati Institute, holds that for the creation of economics of non-violence, one must take into account the principles of decentralization, economy of permanence, search for non-violent technology and search for the technique how to make trusteeship practical in our life, non-violent class-struggle, economics of cooperative ventures, use of bio-energy in production and swadeshi.
However, Yuvāchārya Sri admits that violence is rooted in the very nature of wealth, therefore, it is not possible to make economics completely non-violent.
But the economics of non-violence will certainly be successful in eliminating cruelty and unnecessary violence, exploitation and luxuries. The need of the day is to abolish the comfort-loving mentality and to make new experiments with firm determination, so as to bring about desirable change in the prevailing system. We must identify the alternative model, make experiment on it and educate people in this direction. Sociology of Non-Violence
The question is how to develop our social sciences on :he foundation of non-violence ? Especially when the present sociology is based on the principles of 'strugglc for xistence' and 'survival of the fittest' held by Charles
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