Gurudev and Mahatma

Dr. S.R. Mehrotra (b. 1931) is former Professor of History, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and Jawaharlal Nehru Professor, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak. He has also taught at the universities of Saugor, London, Wisconsin, and Rabindra Bharati. He was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and a Visiting Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He is the Author of India and the Commonwealth 1885-1929 (1995). The present work was first published in 1971. Professor Mehrotra is currently engaged in writing a second volume on the history of the Indian National Congress, dealing with the period 1919 to 1947, and in editing in collaboration with Professor E.C. Moulton of the University of Manitoba, the papers of Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912)