Gandhi's Concept of Social With Gandhi's advent on the Indian
scene in 1915, things began to change all round. Gandhi looked
at social welfare in his own unique way. His ways, indeed, were
unique, so much so that even as early as 1894 i.e. when he was
just 25 years old, he wanted to help his compatriots in South
Africa by saving them from blatant and crushing racial
discrimination. This shows Gandhi's consideration of his fellow
men even at that young age. Gandhi never equated happiness with
economic prosperity and physical pleasure alone. His concept of
the welfare of society was totally opposed to the utilitarian
concept, viz. the greatest good of the greatest number. Gandhi
said, "A votary of Ahimsa would strive for the greatest good of
all and die in the attempt to realise this ideal. He would be
willing to die so that others might live. He would serve the
rest by dying himself. The greatest good of all, inevitably
included the good of the greatest number, and, therefore, he and
the utilitarian would conv