num_pages: 560
description: Modern India is the world's largest democracy a sprawling polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore India's leading political thinkers have often served as its most influential political actors--think of Gandhi whose collected works run to more than ninety volumes or Ambedkar or Nehru who recorded their most eloquent theoretical reflections at the same time as they strove to set the delicate machinery of Indian democracy on a coherent and just path. Out of the speeches and writings of these thinker-activists Ramachandra Guha has built the first major anthology of Indian social and political thought. Makers of Modern India collects the work of nineteen of India's foremost generators of political sentiment from those whose names command instant global recognition to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers whose works have until now remained obscure and inaccessible.
language: English
title: Makers of Modern India
publisher: Belknap Press