Dr. Ushakar Jha (13 April 1938-20 June 2006) was a Professor of Political Science. Born and brought up in Sarisab Pahi, Bihar, he completed his college and university education from Patna College and University. An excellent teacher loved by his students and academic fraternity, he spent most of his life in Chandradhari Mithila College and Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga. As a respected academician, administrator and a committed intellectual, Dr. Ushakar Jha possessed catholic taste for reading books in particular and also for his approach to life in general. He had traveled widely and made presentations as well as chaired sessions at major academic platforms in the field of Political Science which includes conferences of the International Political Science Association held at Washington D.C. and Paris. This book is a testimony of his wide intellectual canvas as well as his open mind that neither hesitated to welcome ideas nor...