Dharampal

Dharampal (Hindi: धरमपाल) (19 February 1922 – 24 October 2006) was an Indian Gandhian thinker. He authored The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century (1983),[4] Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century (1971) and Civil Disobedience and Indian Tradition (1971), among other seminal works, which have led to a radical reappraisal of conventional views of the cultural, scientific and technological achievements of Indian society at the eve of the British conquest.

Dharampal
Born(1922-02-19)19 February 1922
Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died(2006-10-24)24 October 2006 [1][2][3]
NationalityIndia

In 2001, he was named chairman of the National Commission on Cattle and Minister of State by the Government of India.[2][5][6]

Dharampal was instrumental in changing the understanding of Indian education system before the destruction by Colonial British rule.[7][8]

Dharampal primary works are based on documentation by the British government on Indian education, agriculture, technology, and arts during their colonial rule in India.[9][10]

Works
  • The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century (1983).[11][3] Translated into Kannada by Madhava Peraje with the title Cheluva Taru[8]
  • The British Origin of Cow-slaughter in India With Some British Documents on the Anti-Kine-Killing Movement 1880-1894 (2003) By Dharampal, T. M. Mukundan.[12]
  • Understanding Gandhi (2003)[13][14] Essays on Gandhi.

References
  1. https://www.cisindus.org/2020/06/02/introducing-dharampal/
  2. "Introducing Dharampal - Center For Indic Studies". web.archive.org. 7 June 2020.
  3. Kakkar, Ankur (19 February 2019). "Remembering Dharampal's Seminal Contribution".
  4. "The Beautiful Tree". www.goodreads.com.
  5. "National commission on Cattle to be set up - Times of India". The Times of India.
  6. "CHAPTER II Exective Summery | Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying". dahd.nic.in.
  7. Kakkar, Ankur (19 February 2019). "Remembering Dharampal's Seminal Contribution". IndiaFacts. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  8. "'Gandhian thinker Dharampal has not got due credit'". Deccan Herald. 27 March 2017.
  9. "Dharampal's 'The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century".
  10. "Comparative Education Review Volume 29, Number 1 Feb. 1985".
  11. "THE BEAUTIFUL TREE - DHARAMPAL" – via Internet Archive.
  12. "The British origin of cow-slaughter in India: with some British documents on the Anti-Kine-Killing Movement, 1880-1894". Society for Integrated Development of Himalayas. 6 September 2002 – via University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Catalog.
  13. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Understanding_Gandhi/y-MxywAACAAJ?hl=en
  14. "Understanding Gandhi". www.goodreads.com.
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