Encyclopaedia of Eminent Thinkers: The Political Thought of Tej Bahadur Sapru

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This volume makes an in-depth study of political thought of Tej Bahadur Sapru. Providing new insights into his life and times, it discusses at length his political orientation, his federal concept, his legal career, and his socio-economic ideas. Sapru's contribution towards Hindu-Muslim unity has also been examined.

Dr. (Miss) Ashu Pasricha is a faculty in Gandhian Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh. She has many books to her credit including Gandhian Approach to Integrated Rural Development; Public Administration: Discipline and Dimensions; Peace Studies: Discipline and Dimensions; WTO, Self-reliance and Globalisation; and Gandhi's Concept of State and Power. Also, she has published a number of research papers in various Indian and foreign journals of repute.

Amongst notable persons that flitted upon the Indian scene, between First World War and India's independence, Dr. Sapru, was one of the most notable. As an advocate, as a constitutional lawyer, as a statesman and as a social reformer, he touched many things and whatever he touched, he touched to adorn it.

In India's struggle for independence against British rule, he acted as a mediatory force between Indian Nationalism and British diehardism. During successive stages of India's march to freedom, from dependency to dyarchy, and from dyarchy to partial autonomy, and from partial autonomy to complete Independence, he unstintedly devoted his great talents and his personal fortune, in influencing British Liberal opinion in favour of India. India even after gaining independence remained within the British Commonwealth, by its own free choice, and this is atributed to Dr. Sapru's contribution which is unique and second to none.

Dr. Sapru was nurtured and educated in the last part of the 19th century. His ideals and values were the ideals and values of his generation, in his case ennobled and exalted by a highly cultured intellect and a strong aesthetic and moral sense. He was genteel distressed by the social evils prevalent in Hindu Society of his days, particularly by the defeatist mentality of the proverbially mild gentoo. He did everything in his power, by his personal example to raise the status of Hindus and of Indians, both in India and abroad.

Dr. Sapru had an intense aversion to the public manifestations of his personality. The material on him largely remained unpublished. I have been prompted by the painful fact that no major publication on Sapru exists.

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