Makers of Modern India / ed. by Ramachandra Guha.
Guha, Ramachandra, editor.
2013
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Title Makers of Modern India / ed. by Ramachandra Guha.
ISBN 9780674264113
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674264113
Published Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (512 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674264113 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 954.009/9 OCoLC
Summary Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served as its most influential political actors-think of Gandhi, whose collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or Nehru, who recorded their most eloquent theoretical reflections at the same time as they strove to set the delicate machinery of Indian democracy on a coherent and just path. Out of the speeches and writings of these thinker-activists, Ramachandra Guha has built the first major anthology of Indian social and political thought. Makers of Modern India collects the work of nineteen of India's foremost generators of political sentiment, from those whose names command instant global recognition to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers whose works have until now remained obscure and inaccessible. Ranging across manifold languages and cultures, and addressing every crucial theme of modern Indian history-race, religion, language, caste, gender, colonialism, nationalism, economic development, violence, and nonviolence-Makers of Modern India provides an invaluable roadmap to Indian political debate. An extensive introduction, biographical sketches of each figure, and guides to further reading make this work a rich resource for anyone interested in India and the ways its leading political minds have grappled with the problems that have increasingly come to define the modern world.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Prologue
PART ONE. THE OPENING OF THE INDIAN MIND
Introduction to Part One
1 The first liberal: Rammohan Roy
PART TWO. REFORMERS AND RADICALS
Introduction to Part Two
2 The Muslim modernist: Syed Ahmad Khan
3 The agrarian radical: Jotirao Phule
4 The liberal reformer: G. K. Gokhale
5 The militant nationalist: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
6 The subaltern feminist: Tarabai Shinde
PART THREE: NURTURING A NATION
Introduction to Part Three
7 The multiple agendas of M. K. Gandhi
8 The rooted cosmopolitan: Rabindranath Tagore
9 The annihilator of caste: B. r. Ambedkar
10 The Muslim separatist: Muhammad Ali Jinnah
11 The radical reformer: E. V. Ramaswami
12 The socialist feminist: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
13 The renewed agendas of M. K. Gandhi
PART FOUR DEBATING DEMOCRACY
Introduction to Part Four
14 The wise democrat: B. R. Ambedkar
15 The multiple agendas of Jawaharlal Nehru
16 The Hindu supremacist: M. S. Golwalkar
17 the indigenous socialist: Rammanohar Lohia
18 The grassroots socialist: Jayaprakash Narayan
19 The Gandhian liberal: C. Rajagopalachari
20 The defender of the Tribals: Verrier Elwin
PART FIVE. A TRADITION RE-AFFIRMED
Introduction to Part Five
21 The last modernist: Hamid Dalwai
Epilogue: India in the World
Guide to Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index

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