The Culture and Art of India

Collected Works of Dr. Radhakamal Mukerjee

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Radhakamal Mukerjee

Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968) has been one of the few multidisciplinarians of our age who wrote with equal case, originality and authority on a large variety of areas including economics, sociology, ecology, mankind, democracy, civilization, art, psychology, personality, population, values, marals, philosophy, evolutionand mysticism. He authored about fifty books on various subjects. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Economics and Sociology from 1921-51 in Lucknow University and later or Vice-Chancellor in the same university for some time. He was invited to deliver lectures in many Indian Universities and also abroad including U.K. Europe, U.S.A., and U.S.S.R. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Economics and Sociology from 1921-51 in Lucknow University and later on Vice-Chancellor in the same University for same time. He was invited to deliver lectures in many Indian Universities and also abroad including U.K., Europe, U.S.A., and U.S.S.R. He was member of many voluntary organisations, government committees including some international bodies. Besides being a renowned scholar, eminent social worker who helped in the organisation of adult education classes, co-operatives and various other welfare activities throughout his life, he was a great mystic. He regularly devoted few hours to yoga and meditation before dawn and during the last few years of his life he used to hold regular fortnightly classes on Bhagavad Gita, which were attended by his disciples and other devotees. Besides Bhagavad Gita, some of his earlier writings on this subject are the Theory and Art of Mysticism (1938), Lord of the Autumn Moon (1957) and Astavakar: The Song of the Self-Supreme (Astavakragita) 1971). Ome of the American Reviewer has considered him to have written some of the most important works of our century. Another American Professor has remarked that R.M. was one of the most gifted of the human minds of our time which has worked in the social sciences and through these sciences to a philosophy of social science and human life.

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Title
The Culture and Art of India
Collected Works of Dr. Radhakamal Mukerjee
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Edition
Reprint.
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ISBN
8174877126
Length
447p., 47p. of Plates; Illustrations; Maps; 22cm.
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