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25 Soc. Change 3 (1995)

handle is hein.journals/sclcnge25 and id is 1 raw text is: 3 Social Change : March 1995 : Vol. 25 No. I An obituary To the sacred memory of Professor Malcolm S. Adiseshiah - A tribute With the death of Professor Malcolm S. Adiseshiah on 21 November 1994, the Council for Social Development (CSD) lost its President who truly was its 'Friend, Philosopher and Guide'. Only a few days ago, on 11 November 1994, he had presided over the Annual General Body Meeting of the CSD held in the TIC. Professor Adiseshiah was deeply committed to the goals of social development pursued by the CSD. He was an economist who was not interested only Malcolm S. in economic development per se but (1910 believed that it was a means of social development which, in turn, had the ultimate aim of human development. Literacy and education, he considered, to be the main determinants of human, social and economic development. All his life he was concerned with the promotion of literacy and particularly, adult literacy. Professor Adiseshiah was nominated by the Founder- President of CSD, Dr. C.D. Deshmukh to the CSD General Body (GB) in 1972. After the death of Dr. Deshmukh, Professor Adiseshiah was elected as President of CSD in 1983. The Trustees of the India International Centre.made him their nominee to the CSD. He remained the President of CSD till his death. In 1993 he had expressed his desire to resign from the Presidentship of the CSD because of his indifferent health. But on the request of CSD Executive Committee he agreed to withdraw his resignation and continue as President till the end of December 1995. In order to continue as President of the CSD, he withdrew himself from a few other committees. Professor Adiseshiah read every word of the documents sent to him and gave his omments promptly. He was meticulous about the details. He, perhaps, was the I ost prepared Member of the GB who r ' mwould do his homework more than Anybody else. He would jot down comments on each important point and / {furthermore would have general comments. Once he was held up at Bombay and reached Delhi in the afternoon after the General Body meeting was over. He called the Executive Chairperson (who had Adiseshlah presided over the GB meeting in his -1994) absence) and went through each item, acquainting himself with the comments made by the members, noting down the decisions taken and giving his own remarks. He planned his engagements a year ahead and always kept to the schedule. After his early education in Madras he studied at King's College, Cambridge and obtained a Ph.D. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He started his academic career in 1931 as a teacher of St. Paul's College, Calcutta University. He returned to Madras University in 1936 as Professor of Economics. On an invitation from Julian Huxley, he joined the UNESCO in 1948 and retired as its Deputy Director General in 1970. On his return to India he founded the Madras Institute of Development Studies and was its Chairman till his death. He has donated his property to the Institute. As The Times (London) noted in the obituary of Professor Adiseshiah, he was influenced by the humanitarianism of Mahatma Gandhi and the democratic socialism of Jawaharlal Nehru. The CSD pays its respectful homage to Professor Malcolm S. Adiseshiah.

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