ABSTRACT
The Gandhian ideas and philosophy for progress, though not accepted by Indian state after independence, did not die with Gandhi on January 30, 1948. It is true in some sense but it may be incorrect in other sense. As a matter of fact it is a question of interpretation. Jayaprakash Narayan, the revolutionary socialist of 1942 fame, joined Vinoba Bhave in mid-fifties, but parted company in 1975 when Vinoba Bhave asked him to give up the struggle against government. Jayaprakash Narayan did not agree and made an attempt at delineating the Gandhian-humanist vision of society with a revolutionary movement to bring such society into existence. Gandhian ideas, thus, remains alive in the form of some routine rituals. A different path for progress was chartered by a breakaway group of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to form a third Communist Party in India, known as Communist Party of India , on November 16, 1967.
