In Hind Swaraj, the Editor famously questions the Reader's nationalist vision of swaraj, describing it as "English rule without the Englishman." That remark is symptomatic of Gandhi's questioning of liberal conceptions of freedom and equality.
Liberal traditions usually conceive of freedom in terms of autonomy - as the everyday sovereignty that a rational being exercises by authoring universal law, or law that any rational being would and must freely submit to.
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