Radhakamal Mukerjee

The book contains some of the ideas of Professor Radhakamal Mukherjee, who was one of the few multidisciplinarians of the twentieth century and wrote with equal ease on various aspects of society including economics, sociology, politics, civilizations, art, values, morals, philosophy mysticism and religion. He wrote about fifty books on various subjects. His view is that piece and prosperity in the world can only be brought out by religious teachings particularly as expounded in Bhagavad Gita and not by politicians. He was not only an eminent social scientist but a saint and voluntary social worker too, like Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, and President of India who was in personal contact with him as a teacher in Lucknow University praised him for his simple living, high thinking and voluntary social work as mentioned in this book. Many foreign scholars have highly appreciated his writings and personal life. Professor Manuel Gottieb observes, "I hold Radhakamal Mukherjee in very high regards, he being to my mind one of the two or three outstanding minds in the social sciences in this century. He is the master and we can all be grateful that the gave to us so fully in his many works and writings so that we can draw upon his spirit even while he is gone." About Author : Dr. G R Madan (b. 1923), the Editor of this volume was connected with Professor Radhakamal Mukherjee (1889-1968) in three ways. He was not only his student but was also involved in voluntary social work as desired by him and got guidance in spiritual life being in close touch with him for about 15 years in his later life. He taught in the Department of Sociology and Social Work from 1954-84 and later on was visiting Professor of Sociology in Maharaja Surajmal Institute, New Delhi. He was so much impressed by his latest writings which came to his knowledge when he edited the book, Integral Sociology (Four Volumes) by Dr. Mukherjee in collaboration with Shri. V P Gupta i