Reappraising Modern Indian Thought

Themes and Thinkers
Herausgegeben:Tomar, Ankit; Malik, Suratha Kumar

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Produktbeschreibung

Reappraising Modern Indian Thought: Themes and Thinkers is a lucid and comprehensive account of the thread of socio-political thought of major Indian thinkers over the decades. In contrast to the existing texts on the subject, it explores the social and political conditions that formed the basis of political thinking of the thinkers in the past two centuries. The book begins with a detailed discussion on the development and articulation of socio-political thought that have evolved in modern India. It then goes to give a comprehensive coverage and makes an analysis of great thinkers of modern India, namely Rabindranath Tagore, Madan Mohan Malaviya, Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Abul Kalam Azad, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Syed Ahmed Khan, and Muhammad Iqbal. Divided into four thematic sections; Ideal-Humanist Thought, Militant-Extremist Thought, Cultural-Revivalist Thought and Radical-Pragmatist Thought - the chapters on such thinkers not only talks about their lives and times but also discusses and examines the contributions of those to contemporary period.
This multi-authored compendium has contributions from professionals and experts of the subject from different premier universities of India and it will be an indispensable and immensely helpful basic text to students, researchers, academicians as well as for general readers across India and also abroad who will take interest to develop a critical understanding of the modern Indian thinkers on the issues such as colonialism, India's freedom struggle, nationalism, nation building, economic reconstruction, education, democracy, secularism, socialism, integral and universal humanism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-19-1414-0
• 1st ed. 2022
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9789811914140
• ISBN-10: 9811914141
• Artikelnr.: 63496715

Autorenporträt

Ankit Tomar teaches Political Science at Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi, India. His areas of interest include Indian and Western Political Philosophy, Theories of International Relations, Non-Western International Relations Thinking and Global Political Economy. Suratha Kumar Malik is an Assistant Professor and Teacher in charge in the Department of Political Science, Vidyasagar University, India. His areas of interest include Indian and Western Political Thought, Tribal and Dalit Movements and Issues, Political Theory and International Politics. 

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction (Narender Kumar).- PART I: IDEAL-HUMANIST THOUGHT.- 2 Rabindranath Tagore (Tridib Chakraborti).- 3 Madan Mohan Malaviya (Suratha Kumar Malik).- 4 Swami Vivekananda (Projit Kumar Palit).- 5 Aurobindo Ghose (Budh Bahadur Lama).- 6 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (M. J. Vinod).- PART II: MILITANT-EXTREMIST THOUGHT.- 7 Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Sangeeta).- 8 Bipin Chandra Pal (Ashu J.).- 9 Lala Lajpat Rai (Urmil Vats).- PART III: CULTURAL-REVIVALIST THOUGHT.- 10 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Sourav Naskar).- 11 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (Jajneswar Sethi).- 12 Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar (Pramod Kumar Ray & Prabira Sethy).- 13 Deendayal Upadhyaya (Ankit Tomar).- PART IV: RADICAL-PRAGMATIST THOUGHT.- 14 Syed Ahmed Khan (M. Mohibul Haque & Khurram).- 15 Muhammad Iqbal(Islam Ali).- Index.

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1 Introduction (Narender Kumar).- PART I: IDEAL–HUMANIST THOUGHT.- 2 Rabindranath Tagore (Tridib Chakraborti).- 3 Madan Mohan Malaviya (Suratha Kumar Malik).- 4 Swami Vivekananda (Projit Kumar Palit).- 5 Aurobindo Ghose (Budh Bahadur Lama).- 6 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (M. J. Vinod).- PART II: MILITANT–EXTREMIST THOUGHT.- 7 Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Sangeeta).- 8 Bipin Chandra Pal (Ashu J.).- 9 Lala Lajpat Rai (Urmil Vats).- PART III: CULTURAL–REVIVALIST THOUGHT.- 10 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Sourav Naskar).- 11 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (Jajneswar Sethi).- 12 Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar (Pramod Kumar Ray & Prabira Sethy).- 13 Deendayal Upadhyaya (Ankit Tomar).- PART IV: RADICAL–PRAGMATIST THOUGHT.- 14 Syed Ahmed Khan (M. Mohibul Haque & Khurram).- 15 Muhammad Iqbal(Islam Ali).- Index.