CHAPTER 20
Deen Dayal Upadhyay (1916–68)
INTRODUCTION
R. Balashankar while emphasising the significance of Deen Dayal Upadhyay’s thought and ideology wrote that ‘Deen Dayal Upadhyay is to the BJP, what Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was to Congress’. He was born in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. He lost his parents at an early age and was brought up by his maternal uncle. He studied at Sanatan Dharam College in Kanpur. Deen Dayal Upadhyay conceived a classless, casteless, and conflict-free social order. He stressed the ancient Indian wisdom of oneness of the humankind. His treatise Integral Humanism, a critique of communism and capitalism, offers a completely alternative vision for political activity and statecraft. He belongs to the field of cultural Nationalism. ...
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