This Guru Purnima (24th July, 3.30- 5:30 pm) we are launching a special series of monthly discussions in honour of one of India’s most well-known Gandhian historians: Shri Dharampal (1922-2006) authored, among many other thought-provoking books and articles, the pioneering work titled The Beautiful Tree (1983) that described the state of education in India on the eve of British rule.
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Reminiscences of a daughter by Prof. Gita Dharampal (Research Dean, Gandhi Research Foundation, Jalgaon, Maharashtra) at the occasion of the Lokaarpana of the 1st 5 volumes of Dharampal Classics Series, organised by the Rashtrotthana Sahitya, Bangalore & the Centre for Policy Studies, Chennai, in celebration of Shri Dharampalji’s birth centenary inauguration on 19th February 2021.
(Translated into Hindi by Smt. Sangeeta Jain, Dharampalji’s niece)
चुनौतियों से निपटने की राह सुझाता है धर्मपाल का साहित्य
Born on 19 February 1922 in Kandhla in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzzaffarnagar, Dharampal, was a great Gandhian scholar and wrote several books on Indian traditions, society, culture and polity.
नगर के श्री चन्दन लाल नेशनल इंटर कॉलेज में महान साहित्यकार, गांधीवादी विचारक एवं स्वतंत्रता सेनानी धर्मपाल कंसल का जन्म शताब्दी पर भवय समारोह का आयोजन किया गया। इस दौरान स्वतंत्रता सेनानी धर्मपाल कंसल की याद में पुस्तकालय का उद्धघाटन भी किया गया। कार्यक्रम में कई राजनेताओं, शिक्षाविदों व साहित्यकारों ने भाग लेकर अपने विचार रखे। कार्यक्रम में मुख्य अतिथि के रुप में बागपत से सांसद एवं पूर्व केंद्रीय मंत्री डॉक्टर सत्यपाल सिंह, खादी एवं ग्रामोद्योग आयोग के पूर्व चेयरमैन डॉक्टर महेश शर्मा, चौधरी चरण सिंह विश्वविद्यालय मेरठ के कुलपति डॉक्टर एनके तनेजा, पूर्व डीजीपी आरएन सिंह, पूर्व केवीआइसी के च
शामली, जेएनएन। कस्बा निवासी महान साहित्यकार गांधीवादी विचारक व स्वतंत्रता सेनानी धर्मपाल का 100 जन्मदिन पर शताब्दी समारोह मनाया गया। स्वतंत्रता सेनानी धर्मपाल की याद में पुस्तकालय का उद्घाटन किया गया।
Dharampal was a great Gandhian thinker and a prolific writer and this year happens to be his birth centenary. He was convinced about the imminent requirement for an unbiased understanding of India’s past than what is painted as Indian History today. He laid his hands on the archival material of the British period. His reflections on the Indian past, though ignored in the contemporary debates, have indeed proved to be of great significance and have great implications now. Dharampal’s work challenges the colonial description of India.
You can view the live streaming of Celebrating the Birth-Centenary of Shri Dharampal ji. It is streamed around 12 noon today.
Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India, has shared his greetings and letter of appreciation for Shri Dharampal's Birth Centenary Celerabrations.