Makers of modern India / edited by Ramachandra Guha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guha, Ramachandra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--India--History--18th century--Sources.

Political culture.

Political culture--India--History--19th century--Sources.

Politicians--India--Biography.

Politicians.

India--Politics and government--18th century--Sources.

India.

India--Politics and government--19th century--Sources.

India--Politics and government--20th century--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2011]

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674264113

0674264118