Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling,
polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The
existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime
qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles.
Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served
as its most influential political actors-think of Gandhi, whose
collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or
Nehru, who recorded their most eloquent theoretical reflections at
the same time as they strove to set the delicate machinery of
Indian democracy on a coherent and just path. Out of the speeches
and writings of these thinker-activists, Ramachandra Guha has built
the first major anthology of Indian social and political thought.
Makers of Modern India collects the work of nineteen of India's
foremost generators of political sentiment, from those whose names
command instant global recognition to pioneering subaltern and
feminist thinkers whose works have until now remained obscure and
inaccessible. Ranging across manifold languages and cultures, and
addressing every crucial theme of modern Indian history-race,
religion, language, caste, gender, colonialism, nationalism,
economic development, violence, and nonviolence-Makers of Modern
India provides an invaluable roadmap to Indian political debate. An
extensive introduction, biographical sketches of each figure, and
guides to further reading make this work a rich resource for anyone
interested in India and the ways its leading political minds have
grappled with the problems that have increasingly come to define
the modern world.
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