This monograph seeks to reflect the desire of a teacher to emphasize the significance of our freedom movement which, being invested with some rare attributes, remains a unique phenomenon in human history. The author has also tried to highlight the imperceptible impact it had on similar movements in Afro-Asian countries. It was not a mere accident that the liberation of India marked the beginning of the downfall of European imperialism in Asia followed by similar trends in Africa. On the national plane its potential as a character building and faith raising cause has been unquestioned. What is remarkable about this book is that it comprises within its text the narration of main land marks in our march towards freedom as well as enunciation of the philosophical precepts that manifested themselves in our constructive activities. In brief, it was as if history and philosophy marched together hand in hand to inspire us in the pursuit of our goal. It will not be too much to expect that the message of the movement briefly stated in this essay will serve as a beacon to the rising generation who should know at what cost their forefathers had to build a world worth living for them. They should prove worthy of the heritage with which they were born.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shri Ram Sharma
Dr. Shri Ram Sharma, Professor of Political Science (Retd.) Gwalior is an alumnus of London School of Economics and Political Science where as a regular student in the Department of International Relations he creditably completed his doctoral dissertation. In the country he will be remembered for having launched a pioneer project of annual survey series on Indian Foreign Policy in which he has brought out single handed a set of twelve volumes one for each year from 1971 to 1982. He stopped the series with the latter year as some department of Jawaharlal Nehru University had adopted this project, though in a compilation form. Even they have stopped it after publishing a few volumes. The analytical survey of Bangladesh crisis as a crucial issue in Indian Foreign Policy, the second part of the first volume in the annual survey series, was published as an independent volume. His books, Gandhi – the Man, and Freedom Movement 1857 to 1947 mainly addressed to the young generation would continue to serve as a source of inspiration to the teenagers. His new ventures are: three monographs, each dealing with India’s relations with USA, USSR and China from 1947 to 1971 and Lal Bahadur Shastri: an era of transition in Indian Foreign Policy 1964-66. In his efforts to up date the previous set of these monographs, he has brought out the second part of the set covering the years 1972-91. The third and final part of the series is under active preparation along with another project which seeks to analyse the ideological dimensions of Indian Foreign Policy.
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