Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel and Comrade Mao Tse-Tung

This book on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and the revolutionary farmer leader Comrade Mao Tse-Tung offers a very interesting, qualitative and comparative study. Sardar and Mao worked for the progress of farming community, awoke its consciousness, and contributed effectively to the freedom struggle of their respective countries—India and China. The author has traced out amazing and significant similarities between India and China which exist among the peasants of these countries, their backwardness, poverty, illiteracy, suspicions and mistrusts, exploitation by the landlords, misconduct and high-handed treatment by the capitalists and businessmen, threats of the dacoits and robbers and vices of liquor and other addictions etc. Oppressed and poor farmers, who form the economic backbone of both the countries faced in human treatment of bonded labour. The open saga of their suffering has been thoroughly brought to light by the author. This interesting book which combines the political science with contemporary historical facts will be useful to all those interested in the subject and add to the tremendous source of knowledge for the benefit of Historians, Agrarian Reformers, Biographers and Political Scientists. 

Dr. Ravindra Kumar (b. 1959) is an Eminent Scholar, Writer, Indologist. He is the Former Vice Chancellor of C.C.S. University, Meerut. Dr. Ravindra Kumar has been closely associated with a number of academic, cultural, educational and social institutions in India and abroad. He has 50 outstanding works and 150 research articles to his credit. Some of his famous works, of which many are of international repute and have been translated in several Indian and foreign languages, viz., Towards Peace Vol.I., Morality and Ethics in Public Life, Religion and World Peace, Life and work of Kanjibhai Desai, Nehru and Peasantry, Essays on Gandhism & Peace, Correspondence and Selected Documents of Subhas Chandra Bose, Collected Essays: Voice of an Indologist, Sagai Ka Din and Kulpati Kaksha Tak. He is the Founder and Secretary of the N.V. Gadgil National Society, Founder of the World Peace Movement, The Indo-Thai Academic & Cultural League, Annual Kakasaheb Gadgil National & International Adwards, a member of I.C.P.A. and Executive Councils/Senates of several Indian Universities. He has visited many countries of the world.