Foundations of Indian Political Thought -- An Interpretation : From Manu to the Present Day

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The cosmic vision: Manu. 3. The heroic vision: Valmiki and Vyasa. 4. The moral vision: Sukra and Brihaspati. 5. The pragmatic vision: Kautilya and his successors. 6. The Sramanic vision: Mahavira, Buddha and Somedeva. 7. The imperial vision: Barni and Fazal. 8. Renaissance and the beginnings of modern thought. 9. The integral vision: Sri Aurobindo and Sahu. 10. The synthetic vision: Gandhi. 11. The humanist and socialist vision: M.N. Roy, Nehru and Lohia. 12. The vision of cosmopolitanism: Rabindranath Tagore. 13. The individual, community and political order: an overview. Select bibliography. Index.

"The book is an introduction to the complex subject of the evolution of Indian political thought in terms of its continuities as well as discontinuities and attempts to articulate, explain and examine the concept of state in politics used by an ongoing tradition of enquiry.

The study covers almost all the outstanding thinkers on politics in India and is perhaps the first book which provides an overview of the Indian political thought from Manu to the present day."