Great Men of India
Contents: Introduction/L.F. Rushbrook Williams. I. Rulers and great leaders: 1. Chandragupta Maurya/Radha Kumud Mookerji. 2. The Imperial Guptas/Robert Bryan. 3. Harsha/Charles Kincaid. 4. Dutugemunu/Denis Clark. 5. Parakrama Bahu/F.A. Beaumont. 6. Babur/H.G. Rawlinson. 7. Rana Pratap Singh/Ishwari Prasad. 8. Sher Shah/Charles Kincaid. 9. Akbar/Robert Bryan. 10. Jahangir/H.G. Rawlinson. 11. Shahjahan/B.P. Saksena. 12. Aurangzeb/Elizabeth D\'Oyley. 13. Shivaji Bhosle/Charles Kincaid. 14. Haidar Ali/Charles Kincaid. 15. Tippu Sultan/H.H. Dodwell. 16. Ranjit Singh/H.G. Rawlinson. 17. The Ruler of Bikaner/Sardar K.M. Panikkar. II. Statesmen and politicians: 18. Pandit M.M. Malaviya/C.F. Andrews. 19. B.G. Tilak/Robert Bryan. 20. Sir Surendranath Banerjea/Verney Lovett. 21. C.R. Das/J.C. Ghosh. 22. G.K. Gokhale/Charles Kincaid. 23. The Rt. Hon. V. Srinivasi Sastri/C.F. Andrews. 24. Sir Pherozeshah Mehta/Naoroji Dumasia. 25. M.K. Gandhi/H.S.L. and M.G. Polak. 26. Pundit Motilal Nehru/C.F. Andrews. 27. Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru/C.F. Andrews. 28. Sir Fazl-I-Husain/George Anderson. 29. M.A. Jinnah/Usman Ahmad Anson. 30. The Rt. Hon. Sir Akbar Hydari, P.C./Robert Bryan. 31. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru/C.F. Andrews. 32. H.H. The Aga Khan/Naoroji Dumasia. III. Reformers and religious teachers: 33. Gautama Buddha/Charles Kincaid. 34. Vardhamana Mahavira/Rhys David. 35. Asoka/David Bury. 36. Sankaracharya/His Holiness Jagadguru Shri Shankaracharya of Puri. 37. Ramanuja/Rao Bahadur V. Rangaswami Aiyangar. 38. Govind Singh/Sardar K.M. Panikkar. 39. Raja Rammohan Roy/P.K. Sen. 40. Swami Vivekananda/Nicol MacNicol. IV. Authors and poets: 41. Kalidasa/Denis Clark. 42. Kabir/H.P. Shastri. 43. Tul\'si Das/Kissane Keane. 44. Bankimchandra Chatterjee/M.M. Bhattacharjee. 45. Romesh Chunder Dutt/Atul Chandra Chatterjee. 46. Sir Muhammad Iqbal/Abdul Qadir. 47. Sir Rabindranath Tagore/K.S. Shelvankar. V. Scientists: 48. Sir J.C. Bose/J.C. Ghosh. 49. Sir C.V. Raman/J.C. Ghosh. 50. Sir P.C. Ray/J.C. Ghosh. VI. Educationists: 51. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan/Abdul Qadir. 52. Sir Asutosh Mookerjee/S.P. Mookerjee. VII. Judges: 53. Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman/M.B. Ahmad. VIII. Industrial pioneers: 54. Sir J.N. Tata/Stanley Reed.
"This book is an attempt to tell the story of some of the greatest of the men who have made and are making Indian history. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, India herself tended to forget her great and splendid past. The legacies of her cultures, her art, her literature, the records of her history were neglected. But during the last fifty years India\'s national spirit has revived, and with that revival has arisen a new generation of India leaders.
The subjects of this book are divided into eight sections according to the varied manifestations of their genius. Yet they might well be divided into two parts only, for any classification of the great men of India falls naturally into two main groups. There are the men who made the India of the past with its rich culture, its deep philosophical wisdom, and its stirring examples of courage and chivalry. There are the men of to-day who, turning again for guidance to the history of their land, are taking the best from the past, and making of it a foundation on which to build an even greater India of the future." (jacket)
