This book is a comprehensive analysis of the many visions of nationalism and nationalist leadership that emerged during Indias struggle for independence.
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the many visions of nationalism and nationalist leadership that emerged during Indias struggle for independence. The volume examines key nationalist thinkers such as Aurobindo, Gandhi, Tagore, Nazrul, Savarkar and Ambedkar. It delineates different strands of nationalism in the post-moderate phase of nationalist movement and discusses political emancipation, social emancipation, ethnic emancipation.
Accessibly written for students with a helpful overview of how nationalist thought emerged in India, this book will be of great interest to students of South Asian history and politics. It will also be helpful for civil service aspirants.
Introduction Part A
1. Aurobindo Ghose: ushering in a new era in Indian
nationalism
2. Gandhi: reinventing the nationalist discourses Part B
3.
Rabindranath Tagore: Humanizing Humanity
4. Nazrul Islam: redesigning
community-conscious human existence Part C
5. VD Savarkar: transmogrifying
the nationalist imagination
6. BR Ambedkar: reinforcing a nearly forgotten
voice.Conclusion.
Bidyut Chakrabarty, a former professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi (19982018), retired as a vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati, a university founded by the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Besides these appointments, he also taught at many universities across the world as a visiting professor. An expert on nationalist thought, Professor Chakrabarty has also contributed to the field of political science in general.
