Charan Singh - Selected Works (1947-1986) (MULTI 7 VOL SET) (Paperback-2020)

Charan Singh was born on 23 December 1902 in Meerut District of the United Provinces in an illiterate tenant farmer's thatched hut. He acquired a B.Sc., an M.A. and an LL. B from Agra University. Joining the Indian National Congress at an early age, he was imprisoned in British jails in 1930, 1940, and 1942. Singh held multiple Cabinet positions in Uttar Pradesh from 1946 till 1967, where he was the first non-Congress Chief Minister in 1967 and again in 1970 before his tenure in the Union Government as Cabinet Minister for Home, Finance and as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 1977 and 1980. He passed away on 29 May 1987. Throughout his public life, spanning six decades, Singh was an outspoken advocate of an alternate policy framework for India on Gandhian lines based on the centrality of the village, agriculture, and labour-intensive 'cottage industry'. Singh was a scholar of extraordinary capability, unusual for the clarity and continuity of his thought. He wrote Abolition of Zamindari: Two Alternatives (1947), Joint Farming X-Rayed: The Problem and Its Solution (1959), India's Poverty and Its Solution (1964), India's Economic Policy: The Gandhian Blueprint (1978) and Economic Nightmare of India: Its Cause and Cure (1981).