Makers of Modern India / / ed. by Ramachandra Guha.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Guha, Ramachandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

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.

Table of 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