Indianizing India: Thinkers Whose Ideas Shaped a Nation
Bidyut Chakrabarty, "Indianizing India: Thinkers Whose Ideas Shaped a Nation"
English | ISBN: 1032831049 | 2024 | 560 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1032831049 | 2024 | 560 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book presents a comprehensive portrait of how Indians conceived of the idea of India. It highlights the diverse traditions and intellectual threads that contributed to the making of vibrant democracy.
The book:
• Examines the different ideas of India through 14 eminent Indian thinkers: Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Dayanand Saraswati, VD Savarkar, Savitribai Phule, Pandita Ramabai, Maulana Azad, Jawaharlal Nehru, BR Ambedkar, Subhash Chandra Bose, Aurobindo Ghosh, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and MA Jinnah;
• Highlights how ancient and modern intellectual discourses coalesced with the aspirations of ordinary Indians under the yoke of colonialism;
• Challenges colonial constructs and linear approaches to studying India.
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