Social and Religious Reform: The Hindus of British India Book

	General Editors' Preface
	Volume Editor's Preface and Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	3
2	The Conceptual Nuances of Reform	67
	Growth, not Reform	67
	Social Reform or Social Revolution?	69
	Social Reformation in India	72
	Religion as a Social Mission	75
	Reform Civil and Social	78
	The Essentials of Hinduism	82
3	The Debate over Strategies	85
	Social Reform with Picnics and Tea-parties!	85
	Social Reform: The Virtues of Discretion	88
	Reform from Within	90
	The Line of Least Resistance	93
	Does Social Reformation Require Political Moderation?	97
	A Legislator for Hindus	98
	Reservations on the Propriety of State Interference	101
	A Note from Sir Steuart Bayley	104
	A Note from A. P. McDonell	104
	Sir Andrew Scoble's Speech before the Legislative Council	105
	Ranade on State Legislation in Social Matters	109
	The State as Executor of Popular Will	111
	The Shastras as a Guide to Reform	112
	The Inner Ambivalence of Hindu Shastras	114
	The Tactical Unity of the Orthodox	117
	Objections to Hindu Code Bills	120
4	The Typologies of Reform and Revival	123
	Revival as Reform	123
	Revival as Reaction	132
	The Underlying Unity of Reform and Revival	134
5	Imperatives within Social Reform	138
	The Pressing Need for Emancipation	138
	A Crusader's Testament	142
	Mr. Malabari Finds a Radical Supporter	144
	A Critique of Mr. Malabari's Proposals	148
	Men Simply Have Not Done Enough	151
	Misguided Men and the Ideals of Hindu Womanhood	153
	Tagore Answers and Orthodox Critic	156
	The Controlled Emancipation of Wives	162
	Nationalism Resolves the Critical Question	169
	A Radical Critique of Caste	189
	A Rejoinder from M. K. Gandhi	199
6	Debates in History, Debates on History	202
	The Alien Roots of Indian Awakening	202
	Renascent Hinduism	205
	The 'Renaissance' as Understood in Modern Historiography	207
App. A	List of Hindu Local Associations Concerned with Social Reform in India for the Period 1891-9	212
App. B	Social Legislation in Representative Indian States, 1901-39	219
	Index	222