Gita Dharampal Abstract This essay examines Dharampal’s interpretation of Mahatma Gandhi as a civilisational figure whose political praxis emerged from, and resonated with, India’s deep cultural consciousness. Moving beyond conventional portrayals of Gandhi as merely a nationalist leader, Dharampal situates him within a long-standing civilisational continuum shaped by ethical restraint, community-centred organisation, and moral conceptions of power. Tracing Dharampal’s own in