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