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Prof. R.P. Misra, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Allahabad and Chief Technical advisor of the united Nations, is a well-known development planner and Gandhian scholar. He founded the Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore in 1971 and remained its director until 1979. he was the vice-director of the UN Centre for Regional Development, Japan (1979-84). Most recently (2002-04), he was Mahatma Gandhi National Fellow of Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Samiti, Nnew Delhi. He began his academic life as a social geographer; then he moved to the field of Development Planning and finally arrived at Gandhian studies. Editor of Anasakti Daarshan, an international journal of non-violence-in-action. He has authored and edited over fifty seminal books.

D. Gopal is Programme Coordinator at the Masters level in the Faculty of Political Science, Coordinator of Australian Studies, School of social Sciences, IGNOU. A Relations, Prof. Gopal obtained his Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He also received training in Distance Education in the Institute of Education, University of London, and has been Visiting Fellow at UK Open University, Milton Keynes. He has contributed extensively to the development of academic programmes, curriculum and course material for IGNOU. His recent interest is the expansion of Australian Studies and he is developing a Post-graduate Diploma in Australian Studies at his University. Among several of his research publications, his latest is Australia in the Emerging Global Order (2002).