Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ21413

'Why' Loknayak Jai Prkash Narayan Is Relevant Today

Authors(1) :-Rajan Kumar

The history of socio-economic development of our country has many ups and downs. And from time to time, many such persons were born, who with their thoughts and lives influenced not only to the Indian society but become inspiration for the whole world. Jai Prakash Narayan was such a social thinker and leader who started the major socio-political revolution in the time when our country was under dark scenes of poverty, unemployment, corruption, homelessness, dictatorship, inequality and insecurity and attracted the whole world seeing and seeing as soon as he popularly known as the “Loknayak” The World Leader. He was the leader of Total Revolution in India. He was an Indian independence activist, theorist and political leader, remembered especially for leading the mid-1970s opposition against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, for whose overthrow he called a "total revolution"

Authors and Affiliations

Rajan Kumar
M.A. History, B.Ed., UGC-NET in History, India

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 1 | January-February 2021
Date of Publication : 2021-01-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 18-23
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ21413
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

Cite This Article :

Rajan Kumar, "'Why' Loknayak Jai Prkash Narayan Is Relevant Today", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp.18-23, January-February.2021
URL : https://shisrrj.com/SHISRRJ21413

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