Volume II,Issue IV, March 2026
Volume-II, Issue-IV, March, 2026 |
Received: 03.03.2026 | Accepted: 07.03.2026 | ||
Published Online: 31.03.2026 | Page No: | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.2.issue.04W. | |||
আধুনিক গণতন্ত্রের সংকট ও রবীন্দ্রনাথ ড. অমিত কুমার দাস, সহকারী অধ্যাপক, বাংলা বিভাগ, মহিষাদল রাজ কলেজ,পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
The Crisis of Modern Democracy and Rabindranath Dr. Amit Kumar Das, Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Mahishadal Raj College, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
Today, the crisis of democracy has become evident all over the world. Even after following certain administrative methods in modern democracy, public opinion is not being properly reflected at the ballot box. Market economy or capitalist economy and state-terror have become the main obstacles to proper reflection of public opinion. However, direct democracy was prevalent in ancient Greece, in the small city-states of Rome, among the Teutonic tribes of the first century AD, and in the ancient cantons of Switzerland. These were non-party democracies. In that case, the will of the majority was accepted as the will of the general public. The ancient ‘GAN’ or ‘Association’ of India were examples of direct democracy. Rabindranath planned his ‘Swadeshi Samaj’ from a somewhat similar place of thought. Rabindranath’s plan for ‘Swadeshi Samaj’ was an inevitable result of the fact that in subjugated India, political independence was not so active and outside state initiative and control. His ‘Swadeshi Samaj’ was an almost autonomous organization outside state terror or control—where the majority could be reflected. In contrast to helpless surrender to market economy or capitalism, Rabindranath’s social reform or economic thought was an alternative attempt to search for a democratic or humane face of development. | ||
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