Charan Singh 1902-1987 A Brief Life History  (Paperback, Harsh Singh Lohit)

Charan Singh was born 23 December 1902 "in an ordinary peasant farmers home tinder a thatched roof supported by kachcha mud walls, with a kachcha well ... for drinking water and irrigation"'. This infant born into poverty in a tenant farmers mud but in Noorpur village in Meerut district of the then United Provinces (Uttar Pradesh) was to rise to become the most prominent voice of the village in independent India. This is his brief life history from Congress nationalist and freedom tighter to politician, and an organic rural intellectual articulating an alternative development thinking for India around the primacy of agriculture and small village industries on Gandhian lines.