Vinoba Bhave was not only the closest constructive-work follower of Mahatma Gandhi and the first Satyagrahi of the Individual Satyagraha of 1940; he also left an indelible mark on post-independent India with his Bhoodan-Gramdan movement. He was a saint, thinker and scholar of an extremely high order who could explain the most complex issues in simple but precise words. The book contains a collection of 1, 218 extracts selected out of a vast literature of Vinoba Bhave’s speeches and writings mostly in Hindi. They give his ideas practically on all important issues having social and political implications. The collection is likely to be very useful to academicians, scholars and students of the thoughts of Vinoba Bhave and Gandhian thought.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vishwanath Tandon
Dr. Vishwanath Tandon (b. 1913) is a retired Reader and Head of the Postgraduate Department of History, K.G.K. Postgraduate College, Moradabad (.P.). He was associated with the Central Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, New Delhi for about twenty years after his retirement in 1973. Here he wrote the report of the work of the Nidhi till 1969, which was published under the title of 'In the Memory of Mahatma Gandhi'. He later looked after the Nidhi's English monthly 'Sansthakul'. Dr. Tandon's special field of study is Sarvodaya thought and movement. His English publications include 'The Social and Political Philosophy of Sarvodaya after Gandhi' (Sarva Seva Sangh Prakashan, Varanasi), 'Acharya Vinoba Bhave' (Builders of Modern India Series, Publications Division titled 'Selected Conversationso f Vinoba Bhave National Gandhi Museum, New Delhi). About a score of his research articles in English, some of them on Gandhiji, have appeared in 'Gandhi Marg', 'Radical Humanist', and 'Khadi Gramodyog'. He is presently working on an ms on 'Vinoba and Marx'.
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