Political Thinkers of modern India / edited by Verinder Grover Raja Rammohan Roy

Published for the first time, this is an in-depth, scholarly and exhaustive Ten Volume Work on Ten 'Great Political Thinkers of
Modern India=Raja Rammohun Roy, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mahadev Govind Ranade,Bal Gangadhar Tilak, M.N. Roy, Subhash
Chandra Bose, M.K. Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan, Rammanohar Lohia, and Jawaharlal Nehru=whose thoughts, writings and speeches shaped the destiny of Modern India. An outstanding feature of this useful work is that the• volumes contain important original speeches and writings of the political thinkers, and then critical analysis of their thoughts by other eminent thinkers, wtiters, statesmen and political leaders. And above all, the learned editor gives his own prefatory and concluding remarks
to each volume.
This Volume One critically analyses the thoughts and ideas of Raja Rammohun Roy. It studies in detail : Rammohun Roy : A Life
History; Political Ideas of Rammohun Roy; Humanist Rammohun; Upholder of Synthesis between Eastern and Western Values;
Rammohun Roy and Universal Religion; Sati and Sexism; Social Legislation; Rammohun and Tolstoy; Rammohun and One World; System of Land Holding in British India; Indian . Nationalism; Roy's Tracts on Sati; Female Sacrifices in India; Burning of Widows as a Religious Rite; Rammohun Roy: Apostle of Indian Awakening; Indian Renaissance; Rammohun Roy and Modern India; Pioneer in Social and Political Regeneration of India; Reformer above All; Philosophic Modernist; Monotheism to Monolatry; First Political and Social Reformer; Spirit of Rammohun Roy; Architect and Maker of Modern India; Raja Rammohun Roy : The First Leader of Modern India; A Reassessment; etc. This work is a treasure for all teachers, scholars and students of political science,
modern history and modern social thought; all university, college, legislative, judicial, public and other libraries in India and abroad
and for all those interested in the study of Modern Indian Political Thought.