Adhunik Bhaarat me Raajnitik Vichar by Thomas Pantham, Kenneth L Deutsch, Edition 2017
The twenty stimulating and original essays in this volume provide a comprehensive analysis of the main strands of modern Indian political thought.
The thinkers dicussed are Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Saraswati, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Ranade, Phule, Tilak, B R Ambedkar, Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, M N Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru and Gandhi. Separate essays are devoted to the Hindu and Muslim traditions in Indian political thought, Hindu nationalism, and the ideologies of the Communist and Sarvodaya movements. A significant feature of these essays is that they study each thinker or movement in the relevant socio-historical context as also examine the consequences and impact of modern Indian political theories, These are analysed from a world-hostorical and, to some extent, a political economy perspective.
The essays in this collection highlight two major streams in modern Indian political thought