This book is based on a series of interviews with Prof. Madhu Dandavate by the Oral History Division of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. The book traces the evolution of his life, from its early influences to the growing impact of various movements, ideologies, and writings of great thinkers. He has been deeply motivated by Socialist philosophy and Gandhian values. His Socialism has remained free from dogmatism. It has displayed a resilient quality of responding to the changing situations and people’s urges. The book reveals a life that shows rare sensitivity and abiding faith in freedom, equality, social justice and secularism.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Madhu Dandavate
Prof. Madhu Dandavate, the veteran Socialist, was born in 1924 in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. he secured his Master's degree in Science from the Royal Institute of Science, Bombay and taught Physics in Bombay University for 25 years, from 1946 to 1971. He has been in the forefront of the Indian political scene for over fifty years. He has served as the Union Cabinet Minister for Railways (1977-79). Finance (1989-1991), and was the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission from 1996 to 1998. As a student. Prof, Madhu Dandavate participated in the 'Quit India' movement in 1942. In 1955 he led the Goa Liberation 'Satyagraha' and braved the brutalities of the Portuguese police. During the national Emergency of 1975, he was detained in the Bangalore Central Prison under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) for eighteen months. Prof. Dandavate was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Rajapur constituency in Maharashtra in 1971. He was returned to the Parliament consecutively five times from the same constituency. Prof. Dandavate has written several books, including Marx and Gandhi, Yusuf Meherally-Quest for New Horizons, Echoes in Parliament, Evolution of Socialist Policies, Gandhiji's Impact on Socialist Thinking, Three Decades of Indian Communism, Jayaprakash Narayan: Struggle with Values. As The Mind Unfolds and Ethos of Planning in India.
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