Makers of modern India / edited by Ramachandra Guha - Gurgaon : Penguin books, 2012 - xi, 549 pages ; 24 cm

Includes a short biographical introduction to each person, followed by excerpts from their writings.

Prologue: Thinking through India --
Part 1: The opening of the Indian mind. The first liberal : Rammohun Roy --
Part 2: Reformers and radicals. The Muslim modernist : Syed Ahmad Khan ; The agrarian radical : Jotirau Phule ; The liberal reformer : G.K. Gokhale ; The militant nationalist : Bal Gangadhar Tilak ; The subaltern feminist : Tarabai Shinde --
Part 3: Nurturing a nation. The multiple agendas of M.K. Gandhi ; The rooted cosmopolitan : Rabindranath Tagore ; The annihilator of caste : B.R. Ambedkar ; The Muslim separatist : M.A. Jinnah ; The radical reformer : E.V. Ramaswamy ; The socialist feminist : Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay ; The renewed agendas of M.K. Gandhi --
Part 4: Debating democracy. The wise democrat : B.R. Ambedkar ; The multiple agendas of Jawaharlal Nehru ; The Hindu supremacist : M.S. Golwalkar ; The indigenous socialist : Rammanohar Lohia ; The grassroots socialist : Jayaprakash Narayan ; The Gandhian liberal : C. Rajagopalachari ; The defender of the triblas : Verrier Elwin --
Part 5: A tradition re-affirmed. The last modernist : Hamid Dalwai --
Epilogue : India in the world.

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India--Politics and government--18th century--Sources.
India--Politics and government--19th century--Sources.
India--Politics and government--20th century--Sources.

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