''Navajivan Trust'' is a publishing house based in

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

, India. It was founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1929
and has published more than 800 titles in English,

Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub- ...

, Hindi and other languages to date. Earlier, ''Navajivan'' referred to a weekly newspaper published by Gandhi, in

, from 1919 (September 7) to 1931, from Ahmedabad.

Objective

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 Swarāj ( sa, स्वराज, translit=Svarāja '' sva-'' "self", '' raj'' "rule") can mean generally self-governance or "self-rule". It was first used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to attain self rule from the Mughal Empire and the Adil ...

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

; and particularly: * to propagate the spinning wheel and khadi; * to propagate for the removal of untouchability; * to propagate unity between the Hindus and the Mussalmans ( Muslims) and the various communities who have settled in India; * to present before the people constructive ways for protecting the cow by propagating for starting and managing tanneries, dairies and such other establishments; * to propagate ways for the advancement of women such as: :1. Opposition to child marriage :2. Propagation of the idea of widow-remarriage in a restrained manner :3. Education for women; * to break the unnatural glamour the English language has gained in the eyes of the people all over the country and to propagate for the establishment of Hindi or Hindustani in its place; * to propagate by the publication of journals and books such other ways as would conduce to the religious, social, economic and political advancement of the people; * not to take advertisements in the newspapers conducted by the Institution and in pamphlets, books etc. published by it; nor to accept in the printing press of the Institution such work for printing as-is against the aims and objects of the Institution; * to publish a statement of the activities of the Institution and its accounts within three months after the end of the administrative year; * always insist on carrying on all the activities of the Institution based on self-reliance. Navajivan Trust was to propagate by the 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 based on self-reliance. For 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

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Publishing companies of India Mahatma Gandhi Publishing companies established in 1929 1929 establishments in India