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Power to the people: a chronicle of India 1947-67

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bombay; Orient Longmans; 1969Description: 338 pSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9 Dey
Summary: This is a comprehensive survey and a critical analysis of the diverse aspects of development in all important spheres of national activity between the years 1947 and 1967-Agriculture, Industries, Planning, Education, Land Reforms, Communications; to name but a few of the topics discussed in exclusive chapters. But the Central purpose of this work, the underlying theme throughout, concerns-the vast effort on the part of the Government, as well as other agencies, for the social, educational and economic advancement of the masses, constituting 80 per cent of the country's population, so as to transform these 'dumb and mute' millions, who had count ed for nothing into active citizens in a democratic India, able to assert their 'Right to live.'
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This is a comprehensive survey and a critical analysis of the diverse aspects of development in all important spheres of national activity between the years 1947 and 1967-Agriculture, Industries, Planning, Education, Land Reforms, Communications; to name but a few of the topics discussed in exclusive chapters.
But the Central purpose of this work, the underlying theme throughout, concerns-the vast effort on the part of the Government, as well as other agencies, for the social, educational and economic advancement of the masses, constituting 80 per cent of the country's population, so as to transform these 'dumb and mute' millions, who had count ed for nothing into active citizens in a democratic India, able to assert their 'Right to live.'

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