Lost Nationalism


IN this slim volume are reproduced three lectures by Nirmal Kumar Bose delivered under the auspices of the A N Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna. One of the few surviving Gandhians in the country, Bose feels that if the Gan- dhian ideology had provided solutions to the country's communal and economic problems, the current confusion in national affairs would not have been created. In the introductory chapter, Bose analyses the post-Independence situation which is "the result of each State's dominant interest in promoting the welfare of a limited section of the population and the imperative neglect of the means". He deplores that the most challenging problems of Indian nationalism