Ramjee Singh

Ramjee Singh (born 1927, India) is a former Member of Parliament and vice-chancellor of Jain Vishva Bharati University.[1] He is an eminent Gandhian and is the author of a number of books on him. He was also the director of Gandhian Institute of Studies, Varanasi, India.[2] In January 2020 he was awarded the fourth highest civilian award in the country: The Padma Shri for Social Work.[3][4] His life has been a blend of being a Gandhian academician as well as an activist.[5] Singh has declared Mahatma Gandhi as the Bodhisattva of the 20th century.[6]

  1. ^ "'Solve land dispute to restore peace'". The Hindu. 26 September 2003. Archived from the original on 19 February 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
  2. ^ Ronald Bontekoe, Mariėtta Tigranovna (1997). Justice and Democracy: Cross-cultural Perspectives. University of Hawaii Press. p. 477. ISBN 978-0-8248-1926-2.
  3. ^ "Padma Awards 2020 Announced". pib.gov.in.
  4. ^ The Hindu Net Desk (26 January 2020). "Full list of 2020 Padma awardees". The Hindu.
  5. ^ Ramjee Singh (2010). Hind Swaraj and Satyagraha. Commonwealth Publishers Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 978-81-311-0305-0.
  6. ^ Nicholas F. Gier (2004). The Virtue of Nonviolence: From Gautama to Gandhi. SUNY Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-7914-5949-2.