Navajivan Trust

Navajivan
Type News paper
Founded 11 February 1933
Language Gujarati, Hindi
Headquarters Ahmedabad

Navajivan Trust is a publishing house based out of Ahmedabad, India. It was founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1929[1] and has published more than 800 titles in English, Gujarati, Hindi and other languages to date.

Earlier, Navajivan referred to a weekly newspaper published by Gandhi, in Gujarati, from 1919 (September 7) to 1931, from Ahmedabad.

Objective

Page of Navjivan magazine dated 6 December 1931

The word Navajivan means "a new life" in Hindi, Gujarati and other Indo-Aryan languages.

As stated in its declaration at the time of its inception, the objective of Navajivan Trust was to propagate peaceful means for the attainment of Hind Swaraj (Swaraj for India) by educating the people through cultivated and enlightened workers and to serve India in this pure manner.

For the fulfilment of this object to conduct the Navajivan (to provide a new life), through it to carry on propaganda for peaceful attainment of Swaraj; and particularly:

1. Opposition to child-marriage
2. Propagation of the idea of widow-remarriage in a restrained manner
3. Education for women;

It is to be noted that Navajivan Trust was to propagate by publication of journals and books the activities Gandhi had started for the religious, social, economic and political advancement of the people. It was to carry on all the activities on the basis of self-reliance. For the purpose of self-reliance, the press might undertake printing of such writings which are not contrary to the objectives of the Trust. It is to the credit of the devoted trustees of the Navajivan Trust that they have strictly observed the objectives of the Trust even at the cost of profitable printing work going past them. Similarly no advertisement is taken in weeklies, papers or books published by the Trust. The objective of self-reliance has also been observed strictly as, so far, no grant or donation has been accepted by the Trust.

References

  1. Archived May 15, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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