Author: Indumati Kelkar
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Desh Raj Goyal
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 212
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788123757292
Description
Ram Manohar Lohia (1910-69), the man of revolutionary ideas and multi-dimensional personality never supported Marxism or Gandhism. But with the amalgamation of visionary ideas of these two, he laid the foundation of socialism, keeping in mind the present Indian Conditions.
Lohia believed that election is not a medium to capture leadership, but to express people’s universal will-power. The story of life struggle of this eminent socialist thinker has been presented in this book in an abstract form.
Author of this book, Late Indumati Kelkar started her political career with Quit India Movement in the year 1942. During her stint with freedom movement she was sent six times to jail. With Ram Manohar Lohia’s first complete and official biography and 11 Marathi books on his ideology to her credit, she has also written various famous Marathi books on Mahatma Phule, Savitri Phule, Rajmata Jijabai and Razia Sultan.
Summarisation of Lohia’s biography has been done by Shripad Krishna Kelkar, who was associated with Gandhiji in his service for the Nation. After serving eighteen months in jail in the movement of 1942, he also spent seven years in jail during Civil Disobedience Movement. He married Indumati Kelkar in 1947. He has written and edited books on Quit India and Non-Co-operation Movement and also various other books.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR:
Desh Raj Goyal (b. 1929) was formerly a lecturer of English literature in Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. He has edited and translated many books for various publications. Among his important translations include Maulana Azad’s work Ghubar-e-Khater in English.
Contents
Preface
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia : Life Sketch
1. Mother India – Mother Earth
2. A Rising Star
3. Congress Socialist Leader
4. Impatient for Quit India
5. Underground Revolutionary
6. The Partition Wound
7. Lion of Aguard
8. Orphaned Again
9. New Direction
10. World Tour
11. Asian Socialism – An Illusion
12. New Vision of Socialism
13. Unprincipled Stand vs Lohia
14. A Great Victory
15. Assertion of the Value of Human Life
16. Freedom of Speech and Disciplined Action
17. New Challenge
18. Fighter Leader of a Fighter Party
19. Concrete form of Socialism
20. Search for New Paths
21. ‘Save Himalayas’
22. In Parliament
23. Satyagraha in America
24. Parliamentary Struggle
25. ‘Defeat Congress, Save Country’
26. Last Struggle