‘Excellent collection of essays on the various aspects of Gandhiji’s life and thought, mostly by foreign scholars, published in Journal of Gandhian Studies and Gandhi Prasang, put together by Professor J.S. Mathur, who during the last thirty years has devoted himself to the propagation of Gandhian thought in his home town of Allahabad;. -B.R. Nanda. These articles by internationally known Authors like Jan Tinbergen, Gunnar Myrdal, Johan galtung, E.F. Schomacher etc show the continued relevance of ganhiji’s thought and techniques of social change for a peaceful world order, and should be read by all scholars and thinkers alike.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.S. Mathur
Professor J.S. Mathur, D. Litt is an Author, editor and international lecturer on subjects like social, labour, industrial, economic and peace issues. He has chaired and addressed several national and international seminars and academic gatherings in Sri Lanka, U.S.A., U.K., Netherlands, South Korea and Japan. He has to his credit nearly five dozen articles on Gandhiji and Peace Thought which have been published in leading journals of India and abroad. He has more than twenty books to his credit. Some of his notable publications are ‘Economic Thought of Mahatma Gandhi’, ‘Alling World and Gandhian Alternatives’, ‘ Peace, Nonviolence and World Order’ and ‘Indian Working Class Movement’. His article entitled ‘World Order: Gandhi’s Concepts and Contributions’ finds place in the ‘World Encyclopaedia of Peace’ (Pergamon Press, 1986). His has been the pioneering effort to raise study of Gandhiji’s ideas as an academic discipline. Under his stewardship, the Institutes of Gandhian Thought and Peace Studies of the university of Allahabad earned recognition from the United Nations in the form of peace messenger Certificate. He edited ‘Journal of Gandhian Studies’ for nearly fourteen years. Currently, he is editing bilingual and bi-annual journal ‘ Gandhi Prasang’. Professor Mathur retired as Professor and head, department of Commerce and Business Administration and Director, Institute of Gandhian Thought and Peace Studies, University of Allahabad. He is carrying on his mission of reviving the interest of the present generation in Gandhiji’s thought and values through Basant Bihari Jai Rani Foundation for Peace Studies, Allahabad.
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