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Makers of modern India / edited by Ramachandra Guha. - Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknapp Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. - xi, 500 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780674725966

LCCN: 2010034625

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB106229 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political culture--History--India--18th century--Sources.
Political culture--History--India--19th century--Sources.
Political culture--History--India--20th century--Sources.
Politicians--India--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Politics and government--18th century--Sources.
India--Politics and government--19th century--Sources.
India--Politics and government--20th century--Sources.

LC Class. No.: DS446.3. / M36 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 954.0099