Modern Indian political thought.

An attempt has been made in this book to present a systematic picture of modern Indian political ideas which are spread in a number of books, journals, newspaper files, pamphlets etc. This book is perhaps the first comprehensive attempt to analyze and expound the various phases, aspects and schools of modern Indian political thought. We have in the field several good biographies of Indian leaders. A few fine autobiographies like those of Mahatma Gandhi, Shraddhanand, Rajendra Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose and M. R. Jaykar have also appeared. A few histories of modern Indian political and social movements like the Brahmo Samaj, the Arya Samaj, the Ramakrishna Movement, the Indian National Congress and Indian Communism have
also been published. But this book is the first large-scale attempt to discuss systematically the explicit and implicit political ideas of the various political and social leaders and thinkers in modern India. Modern Indian political thought is a very vast subject