The Welfare state is perhaps the most constructive innovation of modern times, open to continuous revision and keeps alive the spirit of reform by which is was originally prompted. It has been conveniently used to cover a complex of socio-economic-political changes, synonymous with ‘freedom from want’ ‘social’ ‘security’, social justice’, ‘national insurance’, ‘equality’, ‘social’ and ‘public’, services’, ‘full employment’, ‘abolition of poverty’, and the like. Early classics and philosophical wisdom of ancient India provide us with enormous literature to formulate de novo Indian political theory, on the one hand and a rich concept of the welfare state, on the other. Kautilya over reached the modern concept that Yogakshema aims at an all-round development, material as well as spiritual, of the society as well of the individual. It ensured freedom, happiness, prosperity and full fledged development of human personality. Yogakshema demanded a higher moral consciousness both at the elites’ and common peoples’ levels. Yogakshema has all the ingredients of a modern welfare state. A new spiritual consciousness should inform the widespread material concerns in a manner that the essential liberty of man is secure in a system of obsessive democracy. The present book may be recommended to a very wide range of readers, not only those with a specialist in political science, but all who are concerned as citizens with the social conscience of the modern world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.M. Sankhdher
Dr. M.M. Sankhsher, (1928-2002) till recently, National Fellow , Indian Council of Social Science Research, Formerly Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi, was an sestablished academic. He had supervised 35 Ph.D. and M.Phil scholars. His name had been included in India Who’s Who, Asia Who’s Who, Indo-Arab Who’s Who, ABI 2001 Man of the Year award, Year 2000 “Kautilya†award by Indo-Canadian Society, Montreal. Dr. Sankhdher had been recipient of fellowships, visiting professorship and grants from Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Indian Council of Social Science Research, University Grants Commission. British Council, Charles Wallace Foundation and London School of Economics (U.K.), Social Science Research Council (Norway), Indo-Shastri Canadian Institute (Canada), International Political Science Association, the Indian Institute of Advance Study, and the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. He has authored: Reflections on Indian Politics; The Concept of Welfare State; The Welfare State; Gandhi, Gandhism and the Partition of India; Understanding Gandhi Today; Democratic Politics and Governance in India; Yogakshema; The Indian Model of Welfare State; and Social Security, Welfare and Polity. Edited Essays on Fobian Socialism; Framesork of Indian Politics; Secularism in India; Dilemmas and Challenges; National Unity and Religious Minorities; Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Contributed chapters to 25 books, written “Foreword†to 10 books. He has published 100 articles in professinal journals. Prof. Snakhdher was lately the Chairperson, International Political Science Association Research Committee on Welfare State & Developing Societies, Associate Editor, Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, Life-Member, Bhadarkar Oriental Research Institute, Association of British Scholars, Government’s nominee on Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, International Association of Sanskrit Studies, Member, World Association of Vedic Studies and International Conference of North African and Asian Studies. He had contributed papers and delivered lectures on all continents. He had been India’s delegate to the United Nations in 2000.
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