Madhusudan_Das

Madhusudan Das: His Life and Achievements has only three
objectives in view :(i) to present source materials on the life and
works of Madhusudan Das; (ii) to have an objective evaluation of
his personality and contributions; (iii) not to succumb to the
hagiographical tradition while writing on the life and works of
Madhusudan. To fulfil these objectives the book has been divided
in two parts.
Part-1 of the present volume is a reprint of the book
Madhusudan Das As Seen By Many Eyes compiled by Miss Shoila
Bala Das with some alterations. Brief assessments/comments by
seven eminent persons have been placed in appendices added
by me.This is a companion volume to Madhusudan Das: The
Man and His Missions edited by me. In the Part-ll of the said
book, the reminiscenes and biographical sketches, written by
persons closely associated with Madhusudan, had been placed.
The Part-I of the present volume is an extension of the Part-ll of
that book.
Biography of a man cannot be written from the records only.
The biographical sketches and reminiscenes included in this book
though subjective in nature, fill up the gaps and bring out the inner
side of the personality under review. So the reminiscences
compiled by Shoila Bala, which had not been previously printed,
have been placed in Part-I. To make a comprehensive view of the
man,comments/biographical sketches written by Sri Aurobindo,
Mahatma Gandhi and others have been published in the brief
assessments/comments in the Appendices. The sources, from
which such comments/sketches have been collected, have been
indicated in the brief notes in the beginning.
In the Part-ll, twelve essays written by nine scholar have
been compiled. Most of these papers were previously published
in the souvenirs," annually published by Pragati Utkal Sangha,
Rourkela. The paper of Prof. Surendra Nath Jena was previously
printed in the Research Journal of Sambalpur University. By
his permission, it is reprinted here, All the papers have been edited
to suit the requirements of the present volume.