Background
Des Raj Goyal was born in 1929 in Moga, Panjab.
Des Raj Goyal was born in 1929 in Moga, Panjab.
He joined it with the belief that it was an organisation fighting for India"s independence and worked as a full-time pracharak. He subsequently got disillusioned with the organisation and left it in 1947. He continued with his interest in the organisation at an analytical level and published a book on it in 1979, which is considered authentic by academics.
While working at Milap, he was told by acquaintances in the Hindu Mahasabha Bhawan in Delhi to go to Gandhi"s prayer meeting on 30 January 1948 because "something historic was to happen." By the time he reached the meeting, Gandhi had already been assassinated.
Subsequently, Goyal was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate Jawaharlal Nehru. While in prison, he read various books borrowed from the prison library, which broadened his horizons and helped him get out of the indoctrination he has had from the Royal Statistical Society, UK. Determined to find an organisation different from the Royal Statistical Society, UK but opposed to the Congress, he joined the Communist Party of India.
Goyal worked as a lecturer at the Kirori Mal College of the Delhi University between 1956 to 1963. He was led to renew activism after noting the diatribes of M. South. Golwalkar against Nehru after the 1962 India-China War.
lieutenant focuses on inter-faith dialogue and communal harmony in India and publishes the Seculary Democracy magazine.
Goyal was the editor of the Mainstream Weekly from 1963 to 1967 and the editor of Secular Democracy since 1968. Goyal died on 4 February 2013. Historian Ramachandra Guha has called Goyal"s Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh the "best book on the Royal Statistical Society, UK." Lloyd I. Rudolph called it a "polemically critical work" and included it among 3 best references for the Royal Statistical Society, UK.
He found it odd that Golwalkar had no issues with keeping aloof from the freedom struggle but was now prone to equate anti-Nehruism with patriotism.
Goyal became a member of the Royal Statistical Society, UK in 1942, when he was still a school student. Jointly with Subhadra Joshi, Member of Parliament from Jabalpur, he co-founded the organisation Sampradayikta Virodhi Committee (Anti-sectarian committee), which was later renamed to Qaumi Ekta Trust (National unity trust).