A well-known Indologist and the former Vice-Chancellor of CCS University Meerut, India, Kumar has been associated with several national and international academic, cultural, educational, peace and social bodies/institutions/organizations. As an International Professor and a Cultural Ambassador of India, he has delivered more than four hundred lectures at various institutions and universities of the world on subjects related to Asian values, civilization, culture, Gandhian philosophy, Indology, international co-operation and understanding, leadership, way of life, women's empowerment, world peace, youth affairs etc. As a Peace Worker, Kumar started Peace Review – an international journal of peace studies in 1998 and worked as its Editor-in-Chief. In 2001 he has started Global Peace –another international journal of philosophy, peace, education, culture and civilization. Besides, he has inspired hundred and thousands of people all over the world for their commitment towards non-violence by signing pledges. Between 1993 and 2015 Ravindra Kumar has organised a number of seminars, symposiums and workshops at national and international level on subjects related to value education, religion and politics, non-violence and democracy, morality and ethics in public life, human values and rights, education, peace and development, Gandhian philosophy.
Books
Religion and Word Peace, Morality and Ethics in Public Life, Towards Peace, two-parts, Theory and Practice of Gandhian Non-Violence, Non-Violence and Its Philosophy, Five Thousand Years of Indian Culture, Fundamentals of Civilization, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Life, Works and Views, Towards Buddha, Gandhian Thought: New World, New Dimensions, India and Mahatma Gandhi, Peace Philosophy in Action, Resolving Conflicts: The Gandhian Way, Education, Peace and Development, Gandhi in Current Perspective, The Indian Way, The Gandhian Way: A Universal Method of Resolving Conflicts, Non-Violence and Peace Education, two-parts, Facets of Education in Global Perspective, Unveiling the Universality of Indology and Indian Philosophy, Value and Peace Education, Essays on Socio-Cultural Sensitization, Empowerment and Human Rights, Sanatana Dharma –The Vedic-Hindu Jeevan Marg, Gandhi Marg, Gandhi’s Vision of the World in the Light of Indian Philosophy and Greatest Indians –a multi-volume series.
Positions
Teacher, Department of Political Science, SD College, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, Research Representative/Senior Research Officer, Sardar Patel National Memorial, Ahmedabad/Sardar Patel Works Committee, New Delhi, Member Secretary and Chief Editor of Vithalbhai Patel Works Committee, Vice Chancellor, CCS University, Meerut, India, Visiting Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus, Thailand, Visiting Professor/Scholar at more than one hundred Universities/Institutions of higher studies and research around the world including Ateneo de Manila University, Universities of Thammasat, Silpakorn, Mahidol, Kasetsart and Chulalongkorn, Universities of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia Science, Penang, Universities of Mandalay and Yangon, Udayana University, Bali, Institute Kern, Leiden University, Universities of Aalborg, Aarhus, NIAS Copenhagen and Odense, St. Petersburg State University, Jaume-I University, Castellon, University of Torino, University of Vienna, North Florida University, Jacksonville, Florida, Universities of Autonomic Latin-American, Antioquia, EAFIT, Pontificia Bolivariana and Externado de Colombia, Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo –the UEES, Guayaquil, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, Ombudsman, Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut, India, Patron/Chairman, Director and Coordinator for international relations of many universities and institutions of higher studies and research in India and other countries of Asia.
Memberships
Member, Executive Council, Meerut University, Meerut, India, between 1993 and 1994
Member, Executive Council, , Rohtak, India, between 1994 and 1996
Member, Gandhi Serve Foundation, Germany since 2010
Member, National Executive, Indian Language Newspapers Association, India, between 2010 and 2012
Patron, Ruminations –a bi-annual international journal for analysis and research in humanities and social sciences, India since 2010
Member, Executive Council, Uttarakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar, India, between 2011 and 2013
Patron, The EDUQUEST –a bi-annually international-refereed journal in Education, JKC, Purulia, West Bengal, India since 2012
Member, Advisory Board to Techno LEARN –a bi-annually international journal of educational technology, New Delhi, India since 2012
Patron, LM Institute of Technology and Management, Lucknow, India since 2012
Member Academic Council and the Coordinator for international affairs, Shridhar University, India, between 2012 and 2017
Founder Director, Institute of Indology and Oriental Studies, Shridhar University, India since 2012
Coordinator for international relations for the universities and institutions of higher studies and research under the Baise-Chumphon and Krabi Sister’s Cities Projects, between 2012 and 2017
The Ombudsman, Swami Vivekananda Subharati University, Meerut, India and 17 other institutions along, since 2013
Chairman of the Committee for Classification of Affiliated Colleges with the Uttrakhand Sanskrit University, Haridwar, 2013
Patron, International Centre of Nonviolence, Sydney, Australia since 2013
Patron, The Ashram Gandhi Puri, Bali, Indonesia since 2014
Patron, Adi Shankara Vedanta Pratishthanam, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India since 2015
