Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Prologue 1
4. PART ONE. THE OPENING OF THE INDIAN MIND
5. Introduction to Part One 23
6. 1 The first liberal: Rammohan Roy 26
7. PART TWO. REFORMERS AND RADICALS
8. Introduction to Part Two 47
9. 2 The Muslim modernist: Syed Ahmad Khan 53
10. 3 The agrarian radical: Jotirao Phule 71
11. 4 The liberal reformer: G. K. Gokhale 92
12. 5 The militant nationalist: Bal Gangadhar Tilak 107
13. 6 The subaltern feminist: Tarabai Shinde 119
14. PART THREE: NURTURING A NATION
15. Introduction to Part Three 131
16. 7 The multiple agendas of M. K. Gandhi 136
17. 8 The rooted cosmopolitan: Rabindranath Tagore 170
18. 9 The annihilator of caste: B. r. Ambedkar 187
19. 10 The Muslim separatist: Muhammad Ali Jinnah 209
20. 11 The radical reformer: E. V. Ramaswami 222
21. 12 The socialist feminist: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay 241
22. 13 The renewed agendas of M. K. Gandhi 257
23. PART FOUR DEBATING DEMOCRACY
24. Introduction to Part Four 283
25. 14 The wise democrat: B. R. Ambedkar 287
26. 15 The multiple agendas of Jawaharlal Nehru 299
27. 16 The Hindu supremacist: M. S. Golwalkar 338
28. 17 the indigenous socialist: Rammanohar Lohia 351
29. 18 The grassroots socialist: Jayaprakash Narayan 368
30. 19 The Gandhian liberal: C. Rajagopalachari 394
31. 20 The defender of the Tribals: Verrier Elwin 425
32. PART FIVE. A TRADITION RE-AFFIRMED
33. Introduction to Part Five 441
34. 21 The last modernist: Hamid Dalwai 444
35. Epilogue: India in the World 457
36. Guide to Further Reading 477
37. Acknowledgements 489
38. Index 491