Makers of modern India / edited by Ramachandra Guha. - New Delhi, India : Penguin Viking, 2010. - 549 p.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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

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Political culture--History--India--18th century--Sources.
Political culture--History--India--19th century--Sources
Politicians--India--Biography.


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

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