Sevagram

(“service village”) City in the eastern
part of the state of Maharashtra about
fifty miles south and west of Nagpur. It
is most famous for the ashram established there by Mohandas K. Gandhi in
1933, which was founded to promote his
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Sevagram
The ashram established by Mohandas K. Gandhi in Sevagram, Maharashtra.
ideal of a decentralized village economy.
This economic model had political
and cultural symbolism, since it was
independent of the industrialized economy run by the British and intended to
counterbalance it by providing a model
of an economy based on indigenous
“Hindu” values.