A village is the unit - Gandhi

"Society based on non-violence can only consists of groups settled in villages in which voluntary co-operation is the condition of dignified and peaceful existence.

A society which anticipates and provides for meeting violence with violence will either lead a precarious life or create big cities and magazines for defence purposes. It is not unreasonable to presume from the state of Europe that its cities, its monster factories and huge armaments are so intimately interrelated that the one cannot exists without the other.

The nearest approach to civilization based upon non-violence is the erstwhile village republic of India. I admit that it was very crude. I know that there was in it no non-violence of my definition and conception. But the germ was there."

M.K.Gandhi, Harijan, 13-1-40, pp. 410-11