This volume makes an academic ‘journey’ through the themes and thought of Prof. Dr. G. S. Ghurye. This is probably the first time that an Indian thinker is honoured with a Dictionary on the lines of those on Karl Marx, Emerson and others. In this Dictionary, Dr. Devadas Pillai leads the reader through several lanes and by-lanes in the world of Ghurye, through a series of 'entries’ based on the format used in the Micropaedia of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Dr. S. Devdas Pillai, who obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Bombay University under the guidance of Dr. K.M Kapadia has dozen books to his credit incluiding Industrialization and Rural Society, A profile of an Indian Slum and Rajahs and Prajas. He was in the Bombay University for fifteen years as a student and a member of research staff and has worked with Dr. Kapadia and Dr. A.R.Deasi and has hels senior research assignments elewhere, too including the university of Amsterdam where he was a WOTRO-ZWO fellow.