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Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Editors General Introduction D. P. Chattopadhyaya Contributors A Thematic Introduction to Political Ideas in Modern India Thomas Pantham and V.R. Mehta SECTION ONE: ON SOCIAL REFORM AND RADICAL POLITICS UNDER COLONIAL MODERNITY 1 Radicalism in Modern Indian Social and Political Thought: Nationalist Creativity in the Colonial Era Bidyut Chakrabarty 2 Virtue, Vice and the Origins of Militant Nationalist Thought in Western India Sanjay Palshikar 3 Dalit-Bahujan Discourse in Modern India Valerian Rodrigues 4 B. R. Ambedkar and the Troubled Times of Citizenship Partha Chatterjee SECTION TWO: HISTORY, LITERATURE AND POLITICAL IMAGINATIONS IN COLONIAL INDIA 5 Subaltern History as Political Thought Dipesh Chakrabarty 6 The World and Ideas: A Case of Colonial and Ex-colonial Maharashtra G.P. Deshpande 7 Social and Political Thought in Gujarat: Some Pathways from the Past to the Present Sitanshu Yashaschandra 8 Nationalist Politics in Hindi Fiction: Liberal Zig-Zag vs the Straight and Simple Left Harish Trivedi SECTION THREE: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND NATIONALIST IMAGINATIONS 9 The Quest for Hinduism Pratap Bhanu Mehta 10 From Community to Nation: The Making of the Majority-Minority Framework Gurpreet Mahajan 11 Religion, Society and Politics during the Nehruvian Era: Profiling India's Muslim Communities Mushirul Hasan 12 Gandhi and Islam: A Heart-and-Mind Unity? Fred Dallmayr 13 Religious Diversity and National Unity: The Gandhian and Hindutva Visions Thomas Pantham 14 Spirituality and Politics in Coomaraswamy, Radhakrishnan and Rajagopalachari Vasanthi Srinivasan SECTION FOUR: LIBERAL-SECULAR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL/GENDER JUSTICE 15 Justice of Human Rights in Indian Constitutionalism: Preliminary Notes Upendra Baxi 16 Indian Secularism: An Alternative Trans-cultural Ideal Rajeev Bhargava 17 Secular Liberalism and Relativism Akeel Bilgrami 18 Redefining Equality: Social Justice in the Mandal Debate, 1990 Rochana Bajpai 19 Nation, Identity, Citizenship: Feminist Critique in Contemporary India Nivedita Menon SECTION FIVE: TOWARDS A JUST AND PEACEFUL WORLD 20 Indian Conceptions of Order/Justice in International Relations: Nehruvian, Gandhian, Hindutva and Neo-Liberal Kanti Bajpai SECTION SIX: SOME CONCERNS OF RECENT INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT 21 Debates and Engagements: A Look at Communist Interventions in India Javeed Alam 22 Socialist Discourse in India Rajaram Tolpady 23 Modernity and its Critics: A Discussion of Some Contemporary Social and Political Theories Sarah Joseph 24 Limits of the Indian Political Imagination Bhikhu Parekh Index
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Political science -- India.