Panikkar K.N. (ed.) National and Left Movements in India

New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1980. — 320 p.From Foreword:This volume is dedicated to the memory of Comrade K. Damodaran who passed· away on 3 July 1976. The memorial committee constituted in the · Jawaharlal Nehru University immediately after his death decided to focus this volume on the National and Left Movements in India .which embraced Damodaran's political and intellectual endeavours. Apart from this, the Committee also undertook to organize an annual memorial symposium (the first symposium was on the ''Prospects of Left Unity in India," the proceedings of wich have already been published) and to award a merit-cum-means yearly scholarship to a student of Sreekrishna College, Guruvayur, Kerala.This volume consists of two sections: the first deals with the theme of the volume and the second contains reminiscences of those who knew Damodaran closely. In a way, the second section is also a part of the first; what the contributors have stated there forms a firsthand account of the struggle for political and economic justice in India during the first half of the nineteenth century. This volume is by no means exhaustive, perhaps it could not be, given the scope and complexity of the theme. What is intended is to present the fruits. of recent research and thinking on certain aspects of this subject.