Though, childhood of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya was spent in dire circumstances, yet he was masked as a talented student when Indian struggle for independence was engulfed by two nation theory. 1942 he started his public life via Rashtriya Swayam Sewaksangh. He was an astute organiser, man of letters, a journalist and an orator. He supplemented his work of R.S.S. through his skills.
He joined politics when Bharatiya Jana Sangh was established as a political party under the presidentship of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee. He started Kashmir movement, independence of Goa movement and movement against transferring of Berubari and thus kept these issues alive in Indian politics to strengthen unity and integrity of India. He devoted whole of his life for the integration of India.
India needed a strong opposition party and Bharatiya Jana Sangh emerged as a powerful opposition. He made extensive preparation for making this opposition party as an alternative to the ruling party.
An alternative was needed not only of the old system but of the old ideologies too. He gave a call for ‘Integral Humanism’, ‘Cultural Nationalism’ and ‘Indianisation’. He remained General Secretary of Bharatiya Jana Sangh from 1951 to 1967 and was made president of the party in 1968, shortly before his gruesome murder. The political party he nurtured became the political alternative in the form of Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Contents

Introduction Pgs—5

Basic Elements

1. Difference in the Western and Indian World-view Pgs—15

2. Individual and Society Pgs—27

Principle

1. The Situation Pgs—43

Analysis

1. Integral Humanism: Questions and Answers Pgs—63

2. Our Direction Pgs—67

3. Integral Humanism Pgs—78

4. Harmony between the Individual, and the

Supreme Collectivity Pgs—94

5. Economic Structure Suited to National Genius Pgs—121

PANDIT DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA (25 September 1916-11 February 1968) was a statesman, a politician, a journalist, an organiser—who dedicated his entire life to nation building through his sheer dedication, superlative intelligence and his peerless organisational capabilities. 
Despite facing various adversities, he won several accolades in different stages of his student life. Though he was selected for the coveted provincial civil service, he chose to serve his motherland by joining the RSS. Having served as a Pracharak 
in the Sangh, he was asked to lead a new born political party, the Jana Sangh.
 Through Jana Sangh, he gave a political tinge to cultural nationalism and gave the country a political philosophy which swears by the motherland. His prolific writing during the freedom struggle and his leadership qualities during the tumultuous days of unification of India, particularly Kashmir and during the Goa Liberation movement will always be remembered.
Alas, his life was cut short by a conspiracy! But before he left his body, Panditji had given the nation an intrinsically indigenous political system that was distinct from the ones that ruled the mindset of the then rulers and kept them away from the realities of the Indian nation. He named his philosophy, the Integral Humanism, which is the essence of all the virtues of Bharat’s ethics, environment, economics and its dynamism. Jana Sangh’s present day avatar, the BJP has adopted this as its official philosophy.