Indian political thought : a reader / [edited by] Aakash Singh and Silika Mohapatra.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Content:
The poverty of Indian political theory / Bhikhu Parekh;
Gandhi's Ambedkar / Ramachandra Guha;
The quest for justice: evoking Gandhi / Neera Chandhoke;
Tagore and his India / Amartya Sen;
Is secularism alien to Indian civilization? / Romila Thapar;
Secularism revisited: doctrine of destiny or political ideology? / T. N. Madan;
The distinctiveness of Indian secularism / Rajeev Bhargava;
The blindness of insight: why communalism in India is about caste / Dilip M. Menon;
In search of integration and identity: Indian Muslims since independence / Mushirul Hasan;
Sikh fundamentalism: translating history into theory / Harjot Oberoi;
Gandhi, Newton, and the Enlightenment / Akeel Bilgrami;
Scientific temper: arguments for an Indian Enlightenment / Meera Nanda;
Outline of a revisionist theory of modernity / Sudipta Kaviraj;
Reconstructing childhood: a critique of the ideology of adulthood / Ashis Nandy;
Subaltern studies as postcolonial criticism / Gyan Prakash;
The commitment to theory / Homi Bhabha;
The justice of human rights in Indian constitutionalism / Upendra Baxi;
Emancipatory feminist theory in postcolonial India: unmasking the ruse of liberal internationalism / Ratna Kapur;
Righting wrongs / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak;
The poverty of Western political theory: concluding remarks on concepts like 'community' East and West / Partha Chatterjee