Table of Contents

General Introduction - DP Chattopadhyaya
A Thematic Introduction to Political Ideas in Modern India - Thomas Pantham and VR Mehta
PART ONE: ON SOCIAL REFORM AND RADICAL POLITICS UNDER COLONIAL MODERNITY
Radicalism in Modern Indian Social and Political Thought - Bidyut Chakrabarty
Nationalist Creativity in the Colonial Era
Virtue, Vice and the Origins of Militant Nationalist Thought in Western India - Sanjay Palshikar
Dalit-Bahujan Discourse in Modern India - Valerian Rodrigues
BR Ambedkar and the Troubled Times of Citizenship - Partha Chatterjee
PART TWO: HISTORY, LITERATURE AND POLITICAL IMAGINATIONS IN COLONIAL INDIA
Subaltern History as Political Thought - Dipesh Chakrabarty
The World and Ideas - GP Deshpande
The Case of Colonial and Ex-Colonial Maharashtra
Social and Political Thought in Gujarat - Sitanshu Yashaschandra
Some Pathways from the Past to the Present
Nationalist Politics in Hindi Fiction - Harish Trivedi
Liberal Zag-Zag vs the Straight and Simple Left
PART THREE: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND NATIONALIST IMAGAGINATIONS
The Quest for Hinduism - Pratap Bhanu Mehta
From Community to Nation - Gurpreet Mahajan
The Making of the Majority-Minority Framework
Religion, Society and Politics During the Nehruvian Era - Mushirul Hasan
Profiling India′s Muslim Communities
Gandhi and Islam - Fred Dallmayr
A Heart-and-Mind Unity?
Religious Diversity and National Unity - Thomas Pantham
The Gandhian and Hindutva Visions
Spirituality and Politics in Coomaraswamy, Radhakrishnan and Rajagopalachari - Vasanthi Srinivasan
PART FOUR: LIBERAL-SECULAR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL/GENDER JUSTICE
Justice of Human Rights in Indian Constitutionalism - Upendra Baxi
Preliminary Notes
Indian Secularism - Rajeev Bhargava
An Alternative, Trans-Cultural Ideal
Secular Liberalism and Relativism - Akeel Bilgrami
Redefining Equality
Social Justice in the Mandal Debate, 1990
Nation, Identity, Citizenship - Nivedita Menon
Feminist Critique in Contemporary India
PART FIVE: TOWARDS A JUST AND PEACEFUL WORLD
Indian Conceptions of Order/ Justice in International Relations - Kanti Bajpai
Nehruvian, Gandhian, Hindutva, and Neo-Liberal
PART SIX: SOME CONCERNS OF RECENT INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Debates and Engagements - Javeed Alam
A Look at Communist Interventions in India
Socialist Discourse in India - Rajaram Tolpady
Modernity and its Critics - Sarah Joseph
A Discussion of Some Contemporary Social and Political Theories
Limits of the Indian Political Imagination - Bhikhu Parekh
Preface
Index

About the Author

Thomas Pantham is Professor of Political Science at the M.S. University of Baroda. He has been nominated UGC National Lecturer in Political Science (1985–86), has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Essex (1973) and a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the universities of Princeton and Massachusetts (1981). He has contributed numerous articles to journals and edited volumes and has written Political Parties and Democratic Consensus (New Delhi, 1976).

Reviews

"The volume is a lucid and veritable treasure of thoughts and actions that has the potential value for theorists concerned with political thought in India, post-colonial thought and comparative political theory."
*Pahi Saikia*

The present work is an attempt to capture the political thoughts of modern India without any pretension of having a comprehensive history. It is part of an even more grandiose scheme of documenting history of the Indian civilization - its culture, science and political thought in a series…
*The Statesman*