Between Tradition and Modernity : India's Search for Identity Book

Introduction PART ONE: COLONIALISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE Modern India - Swami Vivekananda Nationalism in India - Rabindranath Tagore The Renaissance in India - Sri Aurobindo The Vedanta and Western Tradition - Ananda K Coomaraswamy Some of the Basic Principles and Tenets of the Hindu Movement - Vinayak D Savarkar Freedom - Jiddu Krishnamurti On Nationalism Anti-Imperialist Struggle in India - Manavendranath Roy Preconditions of Indian Renaissance Gandhism - B R Ambedkar The Doom of the Untouchables The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam - Muhammad Iqbal Presidential Address Congress Presidential Speech - Abul Kalam Azad Hind Swaraj (Excerpts) - Mohandas Gandhi Medium of Instruction The Message of India A Tryst with Destiny - Jawaharlal Nehru Our Inheritance India - Old and New Synthesis is Our Tradition National Solidarity PART TWO: MODERNIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS Gandhi's Theory of Society and Our Times - A K Saran Understanding Nehru's Political Ideology - Thomas Pantham Ethical Imperatives - Rajni Kothari Cultural Frames for Social Transformation - Ashis Nandy A Credo Tradition - Romila Thapar On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India - Ranajit Guha The Oppressive Present - Sudhir Chandra The Swaraj of India - Ramchandra Gandhi Why Not Worship in the Nude? Reflections of a Novelist in His Time - V R Anantha Murthy India and Europe - Nirmal Verma Some Reflections on Self and Other Religion and Politics - Maulana Wahiduddin Khan A Silent Revolution Women Writing in India - Susie Tharu and K Lalita