Reappraising Modern Indian Thought: Themes and Thinkers is a lucid
and comprehensive account of the thread of socio-political thought
of major Indian thinkers over the decades. In contrast to the
existing texts on the subject, it explores the social and political
conditions that formed the basis of political thinking of the
thinkers in the past two centuries. The book begins with a detailed
discussion on the development and articulation of socio-political
thought that have evolved in modern India. It then goes to give a
comprehensive coverage and makes an analysis of great thinkers of
modern India, namely Rabindranath Tagore, Madan Mohan Malaviya,
Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Abul Kalam Azad, Bal Gangadhar
Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar,
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Syed Ahmed Khan, and Muhammad Iqbal. Divided
into four thematic sections; Ideal-Humanist Thought,
Militant-Extremist Thought, Cultural-Revivalist Thought and
Radical-Pragmatist Thought - the chapters on such thinkers not only
talks about their lives and times but also discusses and examines
the contributions of those to contemporary period. This
multi-authored compendium has contributions from professionals and
experts of the subject from different premier universities of India
and it will be an indispensable and immensely helpful basic text to
students, researchers, academicians as well as for general readers
across India and also abroad who will take interest to develop a
critical understanding of the modern Indian thinkers on the issues
such as colonialism, India's freedom struggle, nationalism, nation
building, economic reconstruction, education, democracy,
secularism, socialism, integral and universal humanism.
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