Jayaprakash Narayan : His Life and Mission

Contents: Introduction. 1. Childhood. 2. The wisdom grows. 3. Prabhabati weds Jayaprakash. 4. The gathering storm. 5. On to America. 6. Returned home. 7. The taste of revolution. 8. A rebel socialist. 9. Merged in Gandhi. 10. Dedicated to Vinoba. 11. Sarvodaya--a political philosophy. 12. Sampattidan--a movement for eradication social conflict. 13. The Sarvodaya way. 14. Restoration of democracy. 15. Total revolution. 16. Vinoba-JP, their path and the goal. 17. Verdict of transformation. 18. The Chambal chapter. 19. Two historic letters. 20. End of a revolutionary. Conclusion. Index.

"It has been an extremely uphill venture to observe and describe the life and mission of JP, a personality that has never treaded the prescribed way of either politics or that of revolution. He has been a man of controversial character but courageous enough to work out his own ideals. It is difficult to accept him as a politician of normal political character, nor a revolutionary with a casual violent approach. He was a man of his own ideas, evolved and developed by himself through various currents of life. And ultimately he built himself as a doyen of Indian masses. In his life time, JP has rocked several times the history of the nation by acting as a vanguard of the Liberation Movement of India and triumphantly infused the spirit of revolution into the hearts of the youths." (jacket)