Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Thinking through India
  • Part 1: The opening of the Indian mind. The first liberal : Rammohun Roy
  • Part 2: Reformers and radicals. 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
  • Part 3: Nurturing a nation. 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
  • Part 4: Debating democracy. 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
  • Part 5: A tradition re-affirmed. The last modernist : Hamid Dalwai
  • Epilogue : India in the world.