Arguably the finest and the most comprehensive tribute to Jayaprakash Narayan was first published in 1981 in Gujarati. Envisioned and researched by Narayan Desai & Kanti Shah, this book was classified into five sections. The first part features a large number of reminiscences of Jayaprakash Narayan by several people from all walks of life. The second part is an exhaustive pictorial chapter featuring numerous photographs of Jayaprakash Narayan from his early youth until his death. The third section comprises an extensive biography of Jayaprakash Narayan by Narayan Desai & Kanti Shah while the fourth contains autobiographical essays in Jayaprakash Narayan's own words translated into Gujarati. The fifth section consists of a number of poems on Jayaprakash Narayan in Hindi and in Gujarati, including three of his own poems (1 in English and 2 in Hindi). The English text and the Gujarati translation of two important letters by Jayaprakash Narayan (addressed to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and to Indira Gandhi) are also included in this section. This book also features a selection of facsimile reproductions of his handwritten manuscripts in English and in Hindi.
We are now pleased to offer an extremely rare and out-of-print First Edition of this superlative book.
The complete table of contents of all the five sections and many other images of this rare First Edition are attached herewith for the perusal of those interested.
JAYAPRAKASH
Edited & Compiled by: Narayan Desai & Kanti Shah
Reminiscences by: Kanta-Harvilas, Sumangal Prakash, Prabhudas Gandhi, Ramnath Goenka, Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay, Horace Alexander, Maitreyi Devi, S. N. Subba Rao, Charles C. Walker, S. H. Razi, Jyotibhai Desai, Rajeshwar Prasad, Malati Choudhary, Gulab Yadav, Dipti Barua, Dhirubhai Manibhai Desai, Chandrapratap Tiwari, Kshitishrai Chaudhary, Surendra Mohan, Janaki, Dr. Abhay Bang, Siddharaj Dhaddha, Lord Fenner Brockway, Dada Dharmadhikari, B. G. Verghese, Kumar Prashant, Manubhai Pancholi, Vinoba, Devaki Jain, Rev. Michael Scott, Rajmohan Gandhi, Jayanarayan Sahay, Nani Palkhiwala, Welles Hangen, Vimala Thakar, Ramkrishna Bajaj, Omprakash Gupt, Nirmal Verma, Yusuf Meherally, Dr. S. Vijayalakshmi, Minoo Masani, Sadiq Ali, Abdul Ghafoor Noorani, Sachchidanand, Mrityunjay Prasad, Bhogilal Gandhi, Kashinath Trivedi, Nana Deshmukh, Hari Vishnu Kamath, R. R. Diwakar, Ram Murti, Ramnandan Mishra, Nayantara Sahgal, Chandra Shekhar, Akbar Ali Khan, Lakshmi Chand Jain, Narayan Desai, Umashankar Joshi, Dr. Ramjisinh, Mulshankar Bhatt, Ganesh Mantri, Dinkar Mehta, Rohit Dave, Surendranath Dwivedy, Prof. Samar Guha, Manmohan Choudhari, Madhu Dandavate, Vasant Nargolkar, Krishnabai Nimbkar, Devdutt, Vitthal Mahadeo Tarkunde, K. Arunachalam, Yadunath Thatte, Govindrao Deshpande, S. M. Joshi, M. C. Chagla, Thakurdas Bang, Gandhiji
Biographical essays by: Narayan Desai & Kanti Shah
Autobiographical essays by: Jayaprakash Narayan
Poetry by: Dinkar, Ram Gopal Dikshit, Ashok Bhargava, Arun-Santosh, Dharamvir Bharati, Harindra Dave, Geeta Parikh, Upvasi, Bhagwatikumar Sharma
3 Poems & 2 Letters by: Jayaprakash Narayan
Illustrations & Line Drawings by: Vasudeo Smart, Haku Shah, Vinay Trivedi, Dinesh Shah
Publisher: Yagna Prakashan, Vadodara, August 1981 — Highly Rare & Out-of-Print First Edition
Format: Hardcover. Professionally bound in black Rexine with the title embossed in golden lettering on the front cover and on the spine.
Size: 29.1 cm x 22.5 cm x 3.6 cm — This is a large-sized, heavy book weighing over 2 kg.
Pages: xvi + 560 pages + 88 glossy pages containing numerous photographs.
Condition: Pre-owned. Excellent — Near Pristine. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight and firm. Slight/negligible restoration of the marginal corners of a select few pages only.
Remarks: This First Edition is extremely rare and hard to find, particularly in such exemplary condition with all the pictorial plates intact.
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