Title page: "A twentieth century anthology"

Includes bibliographical references.

Pt. 1. Colonialism and the Struggle for National Independence. 1. Modern India / Swami Vivekananda. 2. Nationalism in India / Rabindranath Tagore. 3. The Renaissance in India / Sri Aurobindo. 4. The Vedanta and Western Tradition / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. 5. Some of the Basic Principles and Tenets of the Hindu Movement / Vinayak D. Savarkar. 6. Freedom / Jiddu Krishnamurti. 6. On Nationalism / Jiddu Krishnamurti. 7. Anti-Imperialist Struggle in India / Manavendranath Roy. Preconditions of Indian Renaissance / Manavendranath Roy. 8. Gandhism: The Doom of the Untouchables / B. R. Ambedkar. 9. The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam / Muhammad Iqbal. 9. Presidential Address / Muhammad Iqbal. 10. Congress Presidential Speech / Abul Kalam Azad. 11. Hind Swaraj (Excerpts) / Mohandas Gandhi. 11. Medium of Instruction / Mohandas Gandhi. 11. The Message of India / Mohandas Gandhi. 12. A Tryst with Destiny / Jawaharlal Nehru. 12. Our Inheritance / Jawaharlal Nehru.

12. India - Old and New / Jawaharlal Nehru. 12. Synthesis is Our Tradition / Jawaharlal Nehru. 12. National Solidarity / Jawaharlal Nehru -- Pt. 2. Modernization and its Discontents. 13. Gandhi's Theory of Society and Our Times / A. K. Saran. 14. Understanding Nehru's Political Ideology / Thomas Pantham. 15. Ethical Imperatives / Rajni Kothari. 16. Cultural Frames for Social Transformation: A Credo / Ashis Nandy. 17. Tradition / Romila Thapar. 18. On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India / Ranajit Guha. 19. The Oppressive Present / Sudhir Chandra. 20. The Swaraj of India / Ramchandra Gandhi. 21. Why Not Worship in the Nude? Reflections of a Novelist in His Time / U. R. Anantha Murthy. 22. India and Europe - Some Reflections on Self and Other / Nirmal Verma. 23. Religion and Politics / Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. 23. A Silent Revolution / Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. 24. Women Writing in India / Susie Tharu and K. Lalita.