Jayaprakash Narayan : A Centenary Volume
Contents: Preface. 1. Evolution of my own thinking/Jayaprakash Narayan. 2. My concept of Total revolution/Jayaprakash Narayan. 3. Panchayat Raj as the basis of Indian polity/Jayaprakash Narayan. 4. Class organization, class struggle and social change/Jayaprakash Narayan. 5. The struggle for Tibet\'s freedom/Jayaprakash Narayan. 6. Jayaprakash/Yusuf Meherally. 7. Who was this man?/Minoo Masani. 8. In search of the holy grail/N.G. Goray. 9. JP/Prem Bhasin. 10. The gentle Titan/H.V. Kamath. 11. Light versus darkness/S.M. Joshi. 12. Democracy and people\'s movement in Bihar/Dada Dharmadhikari. 13. Indian socialism - Netaji and Loknayak/Samar Guha. 14. Gandhi, Lohia and Jayaprakash/Vasant Nargalkar. 15. Change with continuity/Madhu Dandavate. 16. My reminiscences of the life of the Late Jayaprakash Narayan/S.N. Prasad. 17. Social significance of Jayaprakash Narayan - a new area of study and policy making/Sugata Dasgupta. 18. What Jayaprakash Narayan means for theory/B.N. Juyal. 19. Jayaprakash Narayan--in quest of truth/Aloke Choudhuri. 20. Jayaprakash Narayan--a profile/Sanmatha Nath Ghosh. 21. Mission betrayed?/Ashim Kumar Chaudhuri. 22. Social implications of JP -- a new dimension/Ramjee Singh. 23. JP\'s message/Ajit Bhattacharjea. 24. A turning point in Sarvodaya movement/Radhakrishna. 25. JP\'s movement -- a positive role/Brahmanand. 26. A life-long revolutionary/Surendra Mohan. 27. Jayaprakash Narayan and civil liberties movement/George Mathew. 28. JP\'s concept of total revolution/Bimal Prasad. 29. Jayaprakash Narayan -- a political morality: re-examined/David Selbourne. 30. Concept of Lok-sakti (power of the people) in Jayaprakash Narayan\'s philosophy/Nitish Dasgupta. 31. JP on alternative polity and social change/Tapan Kumar Chattopadhyay. 32. Social capital through participatory democracy - JP\'s total revolution revisited/Rabindranath Bhattacharyya. 33. Towards a re-evaluation of Lok Nayak/Sandip Das. Books and materials consulted. Bibliography. Index.
"Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly known as \'JP\', has been a beacon light in both pre-and post-independence India. His life and ideas are being keenly studied by academics and activists in many parts of the globe. In the words of Gandhi : "JP is an outstanding general in India\'s fight for freedom. Any country will be proud of such jewels among men". The epithet Loknayak was lovingly conferred on him by millions of his admirers.
If Gandhi\'s life reflects an \'experiment with truth\', the JP\'s life essentially signifies an experiment with freedom. His saga of freedom started from a stint in revolutionary violence and in different phases of his life his deep search for freedom passed through, non-cooperation, Marxism, democratic socialism, Sarvoday and total revolution was unique. In his youth he was hero of heroes during August revolution and towards the end of his life he provided leadership in a movement to save India from an imminent threat of losing even the basic structure of Indian democracy. JP\'s deep involvement in public life more than half a century, without any attachment to power and position could be treated as a parallel to Gandhi\'s. In personal life his detachment should be regarded as unprecedented among worldly men.
The present book is not just commemorative volume: it presents a unique combative and constructive episode in the life of great leader of the 20 century in his own facile pen, some eloquent and intimate accounts from his front-ranking compatriots and writings by some brilliant academics as well. Probably, JP\'s relevance would be felt more in the 21 century, when this volume may stimulate further thinking on alternative society and polity, goals that JP aspired for all through his life." (jacket)
