Articles by P C Joshi

This paper looks at Mahatma Gandhi's epoch-making visit to Uttarakhand in 1929 as a crucial link between the nation's struggle for swaraj and the ongoing people's movement in the region. Gandhi's visit kindled the process of giving the freedom movement in Uttarakhand a mass base. Just so, the numerous social activists of the Chipko movement and the anti-liquor protests of today owe their inspiration of Gandhi. In many ways, Gandhi's understanding and analysis of the issues, including untouchability, the flesh trade and the education system, and the prescriptions he suggested for their remedy form a useful basis for a blueprint to solve the region's problems even today.

Founders of the Lucknow School and Their Legacy Radhakamal Mukerjee and D P Mukerji: Some Reflections P C Joshi The contribution of the Lucknow School and its founders, Radhakamal Mukerjee and D P Mukerji, has neither been adequately understood nor critically appraised by their contemporaries or by their successors. The ignorance of the tradition of the Lucknow school and of other indigenous schools has had unfortunate consequences

P C Joshi Modem Indian cultured renaissance and the anti-colonial struggle were both expressions of the people's search for a national identity. The cultural workers of the pre-independence period did not live and work in ivory towers. They were deeply involved in the social challenges of their time. The anti-colonial struggle at its best assumed the form of a cultural movement and the cultural movement grew as an anti-colonial mobilisation in the realm of consciousness, Today, material prosperity his failed to enrich the quality of life. Exposure to commercial films has resulted in a massive disorientation of conscious less in urban areas. The most creative in the field of art and culture view their environment as entirely hopeless. Also, political parties and their workers do not seem to have much time left for regenerating culture.

Agriculture P C Joshi Uncritical borrowing of technologies developed in the industrialised countries by the third world countries has had distorting effects on the tatter's economies. This is especially so in agriculture.

of Administrator P C Joshi Land reform is both a cause as well as an effect of a thorough-going change in the power balance. Herein lies the complexity of the challenge of implementation of land reforms.