India society and politics [hardcover]

It can be found that though Yashwantrao Chavan practiced politics as an art of the possible, he did not do so as a decoy to avoid action. His life was full of action; but at the same time he was aware that it would be futile to resort to action, if it amounted to a Hara-kiri and would result in a loss of the cause.

He immersed himself emotionally in the freedom struggle, started under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. During the period of imprisonment Chavan was fortunate enough to come into the company of some intellectual stalwarts whose discourses enlightened him.