As a political thinker, Jayaprakash Narayan (1902–79), popularly called JP, seemingly represented one of the two discernible traditions underpinning the whole body of political thought in India. As such, one tradition of political thinking in the country may be said to have the unique distinction of invariably keeping almost perfect ideological consistency in the thought process of the thinker at various stages of his life which, on the flip side, might also be called the conservatism of the thinker. Nevertheless, this tradition has the quality of clearly demonstrating the ideological convictions of the thinker to such an extent that even the lived experiences of the thinker could not motivate him or her to carry out any sort of modifications or alterations in his or her ideological standing. The outstanding illustration of this tradition of Indian political thought may arguably be said to be none other than Mahatma Gandhi whose ideological position articulated as early as 1908 in Hind Swaraj remained unchangeably dear to him. When asked to incorporate certain modifications in his allegedly anachronistic ideological predilections of his early days, Gandhi showed an exemplary courage of conviction by stating that his experiences of those many years did not inspire to change even a single word crafted in Hind Swaraj at the time of its creation! On the contrary, the other tradition of Indian political thinking consists of an extraordinary dynamism in the intellectually hyperfertile minds and experience-wise highly diversified personalities of the thinkers.