Madhusudan_Das

Pragati Utkal Sangha, Rourkela, deserves all the credit and
compliments for publishing this book. Being a socio-cultural
organisation, it has taken efforts to publish books like Madhusudan
Das - The Legislator, Madhusudan Das: The Man and His
Missions and other books in oriya language. I compliment the
missionary efforts of the members of this organisation. I am also
thankful to its office-bearers, for providing me the opportunity to
edit this volume.
The proposal and inspiration to publish such a volume, came
from Acharya Bhabananda (Bhubaneswar), a Gandhian thinker
and reputed scholar, and Mr. Surasinha Pattanayak (Berhampur),
a Madhusudan-devotee. Both of them have also helped me in
many ways whenever I have sought their assistance. Only thanks
will not do justice to them. Sricharan Mohanty, the Vice-president
of Pragati Utkal Sangha, has helped me at every stage of this
publication. I extend my heartiest thanks to all of them.
As mentioned before, most of the papers included in Part-ll,
are reprinted from the annual souvenirs of Pragati Utkal Sangha
edited by Nabin Kumar Sahoo, Prabodh Kumar Mishra and
Sricharan Mohanty in different years. I express my obligation to
them. I also thank the scholars who have ungrudgingly permitted
me to use their papers in this book.
Madhusudan Das: His Life and Achievements was planned
and partially printed in the year 1999. It is after a gap of three
years, the book could only be completed and published. For this
delay, I apologise to all my well-wishers and readers. Moreover,
this book may not be free from errors. I request the readers to
kindly excuse me for such inadvertent errors which may be there.
Lastly, I am thankful to my wife Geetanjali Dash for her
support and Kumarika, Gangotri and Shankar Prasad Mishra for
type-setting and Tapan Kumar Mohapatra for printing.
Rourkela
28.4.2002
Debendra Kumar Dash