The freedom movement and its fulfillment depended on Indians knowing their country. This book by Shri B.P. Singh will enable Indians to know India's past, its present and its future. A novel effort towards understanding of the relationship between cultural and political forces that determined India's freedom movement. It was Mahatma Gandhi more than others who brought the Indian National Congress close to the common people. In the process some age old practices of untouchability, caste discrimination and denial of education to certain classes of people were severely challenged. A rare book which delineates the connection between politics and composite culture.

The book attempts to study the Congress Forum for Socialist Action as a pressure group within the Congress party between mid 1962 and early 1973. It has also touched upon the revival of the CFSA in 1977 and 1987. Explaining how non-implementation of party policies and programmes, authoritative attitude of the party elite towards the rank and file, and the emergence of ideological differences among them led to the formation of the pressure group. The structure, process and functions of the pressure group have also been analysed. The forum reiterated its faith in defining the concept of socialism, its basic objective being to emphasize the establishment of socialistic society in the country. The forum achieved a good success as far as controlling monopolistic tendencies and expansion of public enterprise were concerned.

About the Book: Spread over a wide canvas, but focused entirely on the Indian diaspora, Mulloo attempts a diasporic perspective by using the inter disciplinary tools of history, economics, politics and sociology to narrate the story of overseas Indians.

Composite Culture in a Multicultural Society is an insightful volume, featuring contributions by luminaries from the fields of political theory and philosophy; ancient, medieval and modern history; sociology; anthropology and the creative arts. It brings to the fore the theoretical and practical ramifications of multiculturalism. Part I provides perspectives drawing on the multicultural experiences of the United States, Britain, Trinidad, Pakistan and Malaysia. In Part II, the focus is on the experience of composite culture in the ancient, medieval and modern periods of Indian history. Part III includes essays on the contemporary experience of multiculturalism in India, from both the sociological viewpoint as well as that of the creative arts and popular cinema. Comprehensive and topical, this volume will be valuable to scholars and students of the social sciences, international relations, cultural studies, and those interested in international migration and diasporic communities.

Can Parliament and the Union Government deprive Indians of their cultural heritage right to monuments? How has this deprivation been achieved by using the legislative process? Has the judicial culture of the Supreme Court been able to return to Indians this cultural heritage right? Can nationally important monuments be protected in a contrary political economy? How to retrieve and restore to Indians the fundamental right to the distinct culture of monuments by understanding what a monument is?