Changing India's Villages (An Old and Rare Book)

In my pursuit of a new India, I experimented with trade unions, slums, villages, students, and our educational system. Starting with a basically Marxist perspective, I plunged into it. After three rough years I was convinced that I had not under stood the reality with which I was interacting. And I came to the realization that I had imposed a theory upon the reality, rather than develop a theory from the reality. In other words, I had negated the very basis of Marxism-its claim to science. This led me to examine the reality afresh. I gradually. become aware of, what may be called, an ideology of India.

It needed to be understood. What is presented here is a small effort in that direction I have no definitive positions to defend. My purpose is only to assert that we do have a problem Hence I write this as a student of Society, and in a spirit of scientific inquiry. Moreover, I am extremely conscious of the act that Srikrishna, Karl Marx, and Mohandas Gandhi are all dead, that there was no God, and that we are alive in this world.

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