‘The Argumentative Indian’ Book Contents:
Preface – ix
Diacritical Notation for Sanskrit Words – xix
PART ONE
Voice and Heterodoxy
1. The Argumentative Indian – 3
2. Inequality, Instability and Voice – 34
3. India: Large and Small – 45
4. The Diaspora and the World – 73
PART TWO
Culture and Communication
5. Tagore and His India- 89
6. Our Culture, Their Culture – 121
7. Indian Traditions and the Western Imagination – 139
8. China and India – 161
PART THREE
Politics and Protest
9. Tryst with Destiny – 193
10. Class in India – 204
11. Women and Men – 220
12. India and the Bomb – 251
PART FOUR
Reason and Identity
13. The Reach of Reason – 273
14. Secularism and Its Discontents – 294
15. India through Its Calendars – 317
16. The Indian Identity – 334
Notes – 357
Index of Names – 393
General Index – 401