• ISBN13: 9788126901562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: June 22, 2011
• Pages: 200
• Original Price: INR 495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 390 grams

History of Political Thought covers detailed study of Socialism and Democratic Socialism with all its forms such as Fabian Socialism and Symbilcalism. Communism based on Marxist thinking has been re-interperted, moulded and amended by Lenin and Stalin in Russia and by Mao-Tse-Tung in China. Ideas of these thinkers have been presented in this book in a very simple and lucid language. Impact of Anarchism, Fascism and Pluralism in Russia, Italy and Germany and Britain, including its colonial empire, has been very well explained.
Opinions of modern thinkers like Harold Laski, G.D.H. Cole and Bertrand Russell about new political traditions in the West have also been given in brief.
After Independence, due to great impact of Indian Political Thought all over the world including Indian Polity and its people, ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, Sarvoyadaya and of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru have been described in this book in a comprehensive manner.
The book deals with conflicting political ideas but author has made an attempt to describe these ideas with objective outlook in easiest possible manner, in order to make it useful to students as well as to common reader.

Dr. R.S. Chaurasia, M.A. in English, History, Economics, Political Science, LL.B., holds Ph.D. degree in History. He is the retired Principal and Head of the Department of History and Political Science, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He has taught in different colleges under different universities for four decades. He has written about forty books on English, History and Political Science. He is a reputed author of thirty years standing. He has contributed more than hundred papers in leading Journals as well as in different University books and Newspapers. He has also taught P.G. Teachers of Delhi Senior Secondary Schools under the auspices of the Delhi State Institute of Education for about twenty years. He has recently been awarded “Millennium Award” of 2000 A.D. at Farrukhabad Mahotsav, Uttar Pradesh.
His other books include: History of Japan; History of Modern China; History of Middle East; History of Western Political Thought; History of Medieval India; History of Ancient India; History of Modern India; History of Europe 1 to 4 Vols.