Indian Nationalism: The Essential Writings

285 Pages·2017·1.3 MB·English

by  Irfan Habib (ed.)

INDIAN NATIONALISM
Also by S. Irfan Habib
Domesticating Modern Science: A Social History of
Science and Culture in Colonial India (with Dhruv Raina) To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and
Programme of
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Modern Science in Contemporary Islam Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham
(edited with Dhruv Raina)

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CONTENTS
A Note on the Book
Introduction
I. EARLY LIBERAL VIEW OF NATION AND CULTURE
Mahadev Govind Ranade
Revival or Reform: Imagining a New Nation
Surendranath Banerjea
We Are All Brothers in Arms
II. RELIGION-CENTRIC NATIONALISM
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Yearning for a Hindu Nation
Revivalism and Nationality
Who is an Alien?
Lala Lajpat Rai
A Study of Hindu Nationalism
Communalism and Nationalism
Bipin Chandra Pal
Hinduism and Indian Nationalism
Hinduism Nationalism: What it Stands For
Sri Aurobindo
Nationalism is ‘Religion’
Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani
Composite Nationalism and Islam
Allama Iqbal
Is Composite Nationalism Possible in Islam?
Nationalism is Antithetical to Islam
III. COSMOPOLITAN VISION AND NATIONALISM
Rabindranath Tagore
Nationalism in India
IV. INCLUSIVE NATIONALISM AND SYNCRETIC CULTURE
Sarojini Naidu
The Vision of Patriotism
Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb—The Unity of Cultures
Syncretism in Indian Culture
Prafulla Chandra Ray
Composite Culture and Nationality
V. EMPATHY AND NATIONALISM
Mahatma Gandhi
Is Hatred Essential for Nationalism?
Nationalism v. Internationalism
VI. COMBATING FISSIPAROUS FORCES AND NATION BUILDING
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
National Unity and Nationalism
VI. AN ECLECTIC VIEW OF NATIONALISM AND CULTURE
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nationalism and Internationalism
What is Culture?
VII. NATIONALISM DEFINED
B. R. Ambedkar
Who Constitutes a Nation?
Labour and Nationalism
VIII. RIGHT LIBERAL VIEW OF CULTURE AND NATIONALISM
C. Rajagopalachari
Need for a Dynamic Patriotism
Indian Culture is Self-restraint
Xenophobia and Linguistic Nationalism
IX. REVOLUTIONARY VISION OF NATIONALISM
Subhas Chandra Bose
Communalism is not Nationalism
Defeat Fanaticism for Healthy Nationalism
Bhagat Singh
Vision of Shared Nationalism
Nation Sans Discrimination
Why I Am an Atheist
M. N. Roy
On Patriotism
Bourgeois Nationalism
X. INDIVISIBLE NATIONALISM
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Indivisible Unity Called Indian Nationality
Perils of Narrow Nationalism
Nationalism and the Muslims
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Nationalism Transcends Religion
XI. INTEGRATED NATIONALISM
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Search for an Integrated Indian
Nationality Test for Muslims
XII. NATION AND NATIONHOOD DEFINED
Jayaprakash Narayan
Origin of a Nation
Aggressive Nationalism: A Danger to the World