In his two-part Human Society series, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar has chosen to depart from chronological order: analysing modern society in the first part of the series, and then delving into human history, and human macrohistory, in the second part.

In Human Society Part 1 the author demonstrates at the outset that society must be built on a foundation of morality and must move progressively forward in order to establish itself in universal humanism. Then from the vantage point of that universal humanism, the author examines different issues of education, social justice, and the judicial system; and probes the impacts that practitioners of various professions may have, for better or for worse, on the social body as whole, depending on the expansiveness of their minds. Human Society Part 1, in effect, provides human beings the vision needed to build a society in the true sense of the word.

The original Bengali version of Human Society Part 1 appeared on Kojagári Púrńimá (in or near the first week of November) 1959, but most if not all of the dictation was given considerably earlier, in the latter part of 1957.

As of April 1995, the scribe who took the dictation still clearly remembered the author’s intense involvement in his subject, recounting that the author’s facial expressions as he dictated would reflect the praise or blame, compassion, indignation or righteous anger that the author was expressing in relation to different elements of human society.

Footnotes by the translators have all been signed “–Trans.”

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