India's social crisis An Essay on Capitalism, Socialism, Individualism and Indian Civilization

This book is a study of India's social crisis as it has been perceived by various disciplines. The focus is mainly on interpretations that theories of Manu, Kautilya, Adam Smith,James Mill, Ricardo and Marx, as well as more contemporary political and social activists offer of India's social crisis. The central theme of this book is the resistance of Indian civilization to being forced into the melting-pot of Western world-scale capitalism. The author concludes that India is likely to remain a country of increasing societal diversities in which the individual struggles and survives by reconciling himself to these very diversities, on mutually acceptable terms.
Arun Bose became interested in Indian diversities as a theory-oriented activist in the Indian and international communist movements in the 1930s and 1940s. Mr Bose established contact with social activists in Sri Lanka, Burma, Indonesia and pre-1947 Palestine so that he could better understand Indian realities by acquaintance with theirs.