Professor Radhakamal Mukerjee, a celebrated thinker of our era, in the present work, The Oneness f Mankind, has referred to the epochal crisis both in social science and the life of modern mankind. He feels that the crisis must be resolved in order that the species may survive the threat of the third world war. For this the knowledge of man, values and culture has to be released from the grips of its present narrow frame of reference. A rethinking of the goals of the social sciences in a universal perspective become imperative. Dr. Mukerjee has denounced the compartmentalization of the social sciences and has formulated the theory of the oneness of mankind embodying a new dimension of social analysis. To Dr. Mukerjee the idea is not a utopian fancy but the faith of our age. The author has discussed the topics like the bio-psychological unity of mankind, unities and universals of culture, the economic integration and welfare of mankind and the imbalance of mankind’s population and resources. As a consequence of the role of the UNO and its various agencies, there has emerged a universal structure of human relations and values irrespective of social institutions, cultural patterns and historical circumstances. Both the ancient vision of metaphysics and the modern understanding of the natural sciences reveal the unity of mankind.
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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