The kingdoms and empires rolled down beneath the wheals of history but Indian culture has survived the ravages of time. The great Roman empire, the ancient city of Greece, the pyramids of Egypt and many places of antiquity in China remind us of the greatness of the respective world civilization and culture. The greatness of Indian culture however does not lie in the grandeur and splendor of palaces and courts but in the hermitages of saints and sages who silently brood over the mysteries of universe and human life. The Indian spirituality is an affirmation of eternal moral order an intuitive vision of the ultimate reality. There has been unbroken continuity regarding the basic truth of ultimate reality from the time of the Vedas up to Vivekanand and Gandhi. There is a continuity found in the ancient, the medinal and the modern age.
Mahatma Gandhin is a product of the spiritual heritage of Indian culture. He has attempted to spiritualize politics moralise ethics and humanize the academics. There is no water light compartment between various disciplines, viz, Philosophy, Economics and Politics. This book seeks to explain Indian culture from the Gandhian Stand Point.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramjee Singh
Ramjee Singh, Professors Ramjee Singh, as Gandhian author and activist needs no introduction in India. His earlier books on Gandhism Relevance of Gandhian Thought, Gandhi and the Modern World, Gandhi and the 21st Century and the Gandhian Vision and some others have been well acclaimed. He has served many institutions with distinction. He has been a former Director of Gandhian Institute of Studies (Varanasi), former Secretary & President of Indian Society of Gandhian Studies, former Vice-Chancellor of Jain Viswa-Bharati Institute (Ladnun) and many national and international academic bodies. He has taught philosophy and Gandhian thought for 50 years and he is still an Emeritus Fellow of the U.G.C. He is a prolific writer and he has authored about 40 books in English and Hindi. At present, he is secretary of Afro-Asian Philosophical association. As a social activist, he had joined Quit India Movement in 1942, suffered imprisonment for 20 months opposing certainment of civil and political rights in India during 1975-1977, and he was elected a member of the House of the People in India in 1977. works for communal harmony and Youth Peace Movement are his best fads. He has traveled all over the world carrying the message of the Mahatma and has represented World Congress of Philosophy (Brigoton, 1985, Moscow, 1993) and Parliament of World's Religions (Chicago, 1993), Capetown, Africa, 1999) and World Congress of Philanthropy (Toronto, 1989). He has worked with Acharya Vinoba Bhave and Jaya Prakash Narayan as a grass-root worker in Bhoodan-Gramdan Movement, Acharya-Kula and Santi-Sena. His permanent address is: Bhikhanpur, Bhagalpur 812001 (Bihar) Tel. No. (0641) 2420305.
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