Swami Vivekananda derived a form of individualism from the Bhagavad Gita, arguing that " liberty is the first condition of growth". It was through these concepts that Indian anarchism developed out of "non-statism", which held it better to build an alternative society that would make the state redundant, rather than destroying the state outright (as in the Western conception of anti-statism). Where much of Hindu political philosophy upheld the divine right of kings, the Chanakya sutras held that "it is better to not to have a king then have one who is wanting in discipline". In Hindu cosmology, the Satya Yuga described a possible stateless society where people were governed only by the "universal natural law of dharma". Although Hinduism developed a hierarchical caste system, the establishment of a state was also discouraged by the concept of dharma, which was seen as sufficient to govern society. Buddhism and Jainism both taught of a prehistoric state of nature, in which people lived in harmony and their needs were satisfied by the land. The foundations for anarchism in India were laid by a number of different religious traditions in the subcontinent. Anarchism was also an influence on the revolutionary movement, inspiring the works of Har Dayal, M. Anarchism in India first emerged within the Indian independence movement, gaining particularly notoriety for its influence on Mohandas Gandhi's theory of Sarvodaya and his practice of nonviolent resistance.
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