Life and Times of Netaji Subhas: From Cuttack to Cambridge (1897-1921)

Born in West Bengal, Dr. Adwaita P. Ganguly was educated at the University of Ranchi, Bihar, India; and at Birkbeck College (University of London).  He received his Ph.D. from the University of London for his research on E.M. Forester’s A Passage to India (1924)- a detailed study of his treatment of India’s landscape, history, social anthropology, religion, philosophy, music and art’.  The thesis was published by Mtilal Banarsidass (Delhi), in 1990, under the title India: Mystic, Complex and Real.  His recent works include Vedanta Philosophy for the Unity of Mankind (Vikas, New Delhi, 1995); and Yuga Avatar Sri Sri Ma Anandamayee and Universal Religion (Vedantic Research Publications, Dehra Dun, 1996).  Dr. Ganguly’s quite significant lectures at public meetings and International Seminars include: ‘Vedanta and the West’, at the Festival of Indian Culture, organized by the Swaminarayan movement in London in 1984; ‘E.M. Forester’s Vision of India’ at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London, in 1990; ‘From the Rgveda to Sri Aurobindo-the continuity of Indian Thought’ at the First Centenary Celebration of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, held at Chicago, in September, 1993; ‘Vedantic Philosophy for a new Global Order’ at the Theosophical Society in London in April 1995; ‘Explosion of the Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India’ at the London Branch of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha in July 1995; ‘Sri Sri Ma Anandamayee and Universal Religion’ at the Centenary Celebration of Sri Ma, held at Ranchi Durgabari, Ranchi, in November 1995; ‘Hindu Dharma in the Future World of East and West’ at the Convocation of Wisdom Schools for the 21st Century organized by the Sancta Seminary.  Oklahoma, USA, at the Theosophical Society in London, in May 1997.  Dr. Ganguly is a delegate to the Parliament of the World’s Religions session at Cape Town (RSA) in December 1999.