ABSTRACT

This book presents a comprehensive account of the socio-political thought of prominent modern Indian thinkers. It offers a clear understanding of the basic concepts and their contributions on contemporary issues.

Key features:

  • Explores the nature, scope, relevance, context, and theoretical approaches of modern Indian thought and overviews its development through an in-depth study of the lives and ideas of major thinkers.
  • Examines critical themes such as nationalism, swaraj, democracy and state, liberalism, revolution, socialism, constitutionalism, secularism, satyāgraha, swadeshi, nationbuilding, humanism, ethics in politics, democratic decentralisation, religion and politics, social transformation and emancipation, and social and gender justice under sections on liberal-reformist, moderate-Gandhian, and leftist-socialist thought.
  • Brings together insightful essays on Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Dayānanda Saraswati, Ramakrishna Paramhansa, Pandita Ramabai, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Jyotirao Govindrao Phule, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Dadabhai Naoroji, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, Ram Manohar Lohia, Babu Jagjivan Ram, Vinoba Bhave, Acharya Narendra Deva, Manabendra Nath Roy, and Jayaprakash Narayan.
  • Traces different perspectives on the way India’s composite cultures, traditions, and conditions inf luenced the evolution of their thought and legacy.

With its accessible style, this book will be useful to teachers, students, and scholars of political science, modern Indian political thought, modern Indian history, and political philosophy. It will also interest those associated with exclusion studies, political sociology, sociology, and South Asian studies.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

part I|115 pages

Liberal-reformist thought

chapter 1|13 pages

Ram Mohan Roy

chapter 2|11 pages

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

chapter 3|10 pages

Dayānanda Saraswati

chapter 4|16 pages

Jyotirao Govindrao Phule

chapter 5|8 pages

Ramakrishna Paramhansa

chapter 6|15 pages

Pandita Ramabai

chapter 7|14 pages

Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

chapter 8|17 pages

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

chapter 9|9 pages

Jagjivan Ram

part II|63 pages

Moderate-Gandhian thought

chapter 10|13 pages

Dadabhai Naoroji

chapter 11|9 pages

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

chapter 12|21 pages

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

chapter 13|18 pages

Vinoba Bhave

part III|97 pages

Leftist-socialist thought

chapter 14|16 pages

Manabendra Nath Roy

chapter 15|15 pages

Narendra Deva

chapter 16|15 pages

Jawaharlal Nehru

chapter 17|17 pages

Subhas Chandra Bose

chapter 18|13 pages

Jayaprakash Narayan

chapter 19|19 pages

Ram Manohar Lohia