Includes a short biographical introduction to each person, followed by excerpts from their writings.
The first liberal : Rammohun Roy --; 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 --; 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 --; 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 --; The last modernist : Hamid Dalwai --; Epilogue : India in the world.
India -- Politics and government -- 18th century -- Sources.
India -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Sources.
India -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources.