Main currents of social and political thought In modern India

By the grace of God I have been able to complete the rather ambitious and arduous task of presenting to my dear students and the general public a fairly comprehensive account of the main channels along which political thought has flowed in our country since the day it was roused from its stupor by the vigorous impact of the West which started the Hindu Renaissance move ment, Despite the fact that the three volumes, taken together, cover almost 1400 pages, it has not been possible to include in our study all the eminent thinkers and leaders. Some of the notable omissions are Shri Srinivas Sastri, Mrs. Annic Besant, Pundit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Shri C. R. Das, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, Babu Rajendra Prasad, Shri C. Rajagopala chari, and Dr. Ambedkar. Besides reasons of space, my chief difficulty has been that I could not fit them anywhere in the plan of the book. My aim has been to trace the growth of political thought and not to deal with all, or even the more important think ers and leaders. While studying the origin and growth of the various currents or schools of thought I had to fix attention upon representative personalities. Obviously, it was impossible to refer to every individual leader, While dealing with the Communal Tradition I have confined myself to only the Muslim and Hindu communalism and made no mention of Akali, D.M.K. and other groups whose communal activities still pose a serious threat to the unity of the country.