Gandhi’s View of Legal Justice

Justice has come to the stage of being a fair and truthful enquiry into truth by way of some definite procedure laid down by the organized community through its government. Gandhi, a barrister trained in England had his own view about the law, lawyers and the justice according to law. His view of justice is bound up with ‘tyaga’ (sacrifice, renouncing) and ‘tapasy’ (suffering, austerity). He looked at justice as a whole virtue and not as a specific virtue. Two distinguishing features of Gandhi’s position on justice are, firstly, he paid special attention to the elimination of poverty and exploitation of peasants and rural areas and secondly, he highlighted the conflict between justice and modern progress.  With this perspective the book aims to analyse and understand Gandhi’s approach to legal justice. Since the word justice and its connotations are very complex and Gandhi had a definite opinion about it, how in the present society this approach is applicable? Can it be used as an alternative to the existing approaches today?