Inaugural Address to the Centenary Celebrations of Professor D. R. Gadgil (10 April 2000)

I am very thankful to Professor Chitre for inviting me to inaugurate the academic activities of the Birth Centenary Year of Professor D. R. Gadgil, my teacher and mentor. This is a unique opportunity and I am honoured to have been offered it. The debate I have been requested to inaugurate is planned around two themes that can be shortly described as the co-operative movement and globaliztion, the two burning topics of the day. The debate is about what would have been Gadgil's reaction to them in their modern versions so far as can be gaged from his writings on these two subjects.