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The kingdoms and empires rolled down beneath the wheals of history but Indian culture has survived the ravages of time. The great Roman empire, the ancient city of Greece, the pyramids of Egypt and many palces of antiquity in China remind us of the greatness of the respective world civilization and culture. The greatness of Indian culture however does not lie in the grandeur and splendor of palaces and courts but in ther hermitages of sails and sages who silently brood over the mysteries of unvierse and human life. The Indian sprituality is an affirmation of eternal moral order and intuitive vision of the ultimate reality. There has been unbroken continuity regarding the basic truth of ultimate reality from the time of the Vedas up to Vivekanand and Gandhi. There is a continuity found in the ancient, the medieval and moder age. Mahatma Gandhi is a product of the spiritual heritag of Indian culture. He has attempted to spiritualise politics moralise ethics and humanise the academics. There is no water light compartment between various disciplines, viz, Philosophy, Economics and Politics. This book seeks to explain Indian culture from the Gandhian Stand Point. About the Author Ramjee Singh's (born 1927, India) life has been a blend of being an Gandhian academician as well as an activist. Towards his academic achievements, he was earned three Doctorate degrees, a Ph.D in Jainism, a D.Litt in Hindu thought and another D.Litt in Political Science in Gandhism and was awarded Emeritus Fellowship. He has authored and edited about 50 books mostly on Gandhism and Indian Philosophy and Culture. He was also Vice-Chancellor of the Jain University, and a panel speaker at the International Philosophical Congress (Brighton) and at Parliament of World Religions (Chicago, 1993), and Cape Town (2001). He was Secretary and President of All India Philosophical Association for about 12 years and is currently the Vice President of Afro-Asian Philosophical Association etc. As a social activist he participated in freedom movement of India in 1942 under Gandhi's leadership and also suffered imprisonment for 21 months when the Indian govt. Had suppressed all civil and political rights and and imposed Emergency in 1975-77. As a result he was elected to the Parliament of India with a margin of 1.86 lacs votes against his formidable rival who was later chief minister of Bihar. He has also raised his voice against inhuman bringing of under-trial prisoners in jail before the Supreme Court and had moved a PIL in the High Court for the protection of the rights of the landless people. As a Gandhian peace activist he has organized about 70 youth peace camps and helped to set up Departments of Gandhian Studies and Peace Research throughout the country from the time he was President of Indian Society of Gandhian Studies till today.