Table of Contents:
  • The first liberal : Rammohun Roy
  • The Muslim modernist : Syed Ahmad Khan
  • The agrarian radical : Jotirau Phule
  • The liberal reformer : G. K. Gokhale
  • The militant nationalist : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • The subaltern feminist : Tarabai Shinde
  • The multiple agendas of M. K. Gandhi
  • The rooted cosmopolitan : Rabindranath Tagore
  • The annihilator of caste : B. R. Ambedkar
  • The Muslim separatist : M. A. Jinnah
  • The radical reformer : E. V. Ramaswamy
  • The socialist feminist : Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
  • The renewed agendas of M. K. Gandhi
  • The wise democrat : B. R. Ambedkar
  • The multiple agendas of Jawaharlal Nehru
  • The Hindu supremacist : M. S. Golwalkar
  • The indigenous socialist : Rammanohar Lohia
  • The grassroots socialist : Jayaprakash Narayan
  • The Gandhian liberal : C. Rajagopalachari
  • The defender of the triblas : Verrier Elwin
  • The last modernist : Hamid Dalwai
  • Epilogue : India in the world.