Sevagram means “village of service,” and that is exactly what Gandhi wanted it to be. In 1936, he set up his ashram here, near Wardha, and made it his base for the rest of his life until 1948. This was not just where he lived, it was also where he worked out his ideas on self-reliance, khadi, village industries, and basic education. Leaders from across the country came here to meet him, including during the Quit India Movement planning in 1942. The ashram still stands, simple mud huts with thatched roofs, nothing grand about it. And that’s the whole point. Gandhi believed real change had to start in villages like this one, not in big cities, and Sevagram was his proof of that idea in practice.
