ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Unto This Last is an essay critical of economics by John Ruskin, who published the first chapter between August and December 1860 in the monthly journal Cornhill Magazine in four articles.

Detailed explanation-2: -About this book, he has written that it brought an instantaneous change in his life. Gandhi derived the following 3 messages from this book: “The good of the individual is contained in the good of all”. The concept of “Sarvodaya” and “Antyodaya” were the products of this influence of Ruskin on Gandhi.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gandhi summarised Unto This Last’s teachings in these three points: That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all. That a lawyer’s work has the same value as the barber’s, inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work.

Detailed explanation-4: -Unto this Last suggested what originally seemed a ridiculous alternative to this model: political powers, as in the government, employers, and individuals, should all ensure that workers doing the same work are paid the same for the same.

Detailed explanation-5: -Unto This Last by John Ruskin was first published in 1860 as a series of articles in Cornhill Magazine. In 1908 Gandhi serialized a nine-part paraphrase of Ruskin’s book into Gujarati in Indian Opinion and later published it as a pamphlet under the title Sarvodaya (The Welfare of All).