Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the great nationalist leader and the first Prime Minister of India, is famous for his contribution to historical, political and socio- economic thought. The multi- faceted dimensions of his thought include various other fields of national life. The contributors of this volume-L. L. Mehrotra (New Delhi) Professor B. G. Gokhale (America), L. S. Rathore, S. R. Goyal, A. C. Angrish, S. R. Bhansali (all Jodhpur) and numerous others are all specialists in different fields and disciplines. They have made a critical evaluation of the variagated descriptions of the spectrum of Nehru's thought.

Dr. Sobhag Mathur is an Associate Professor In the Department of History, University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur. His doctoral thesis Struggle for Responsible Government In Marwar published In 1984 is a well-known contribution to the study of modern history of Rajasthan. An authority on modern Indian history, he has authored numerous research papers. His book on the Hindu Mahasabha is in the press.

Shankar Goyal (b. 1959), after graduation from Rajasthan University, Jaipur, obtained his Post graduate degree from Deccan College, University of Poona. He has specialised in ancient Indian history, culture and archaeology. He has about fifty research papers to his credit. He is the author of two monographs. Besides, he has co-edited many works. At present he is Assistant Professor in the Department of History of the University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur (Rajasthan).

The idea of this book germinated and developed sometime before 1989, the centenary year of Jawaharlal Nehru. At that time it was proposed to bring out a monograph throwing light on the multifaceted personality and thought of Nehru. Initially, we intended to approach only scholars of the University of Jodhpur for this purpose. But soon the plan was modified. At the suggestion of Dr. S. R. Goyal, Professor and Head, Department of History, University of Jodhpur, it was decided to invite some scholars from other places also in order to enrich the contents of the monograph and to exclude the 'personality' aspect of Nehru and concentrate on the 'thought' aspect, so as to make it more compact.

However, all these things proved to be quite time-consuming and, therefore, the monograph could not be brought to light in 1989. But as the importance of Nehru's thought is not bound with any date and is an evergreen subject, we are bringing it out now, in 1994, with the age-old saying better late than never as our justification.

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