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| Prologue | |
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| Thinking through India | |
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| The Opening of the Indian Mind | |
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| Introduction to Part One | |
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| The First Liberal: Rammohan Roy | |
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| Relations between Men and Women | |
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| The Freedom of the Press | |
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| The Need for Modern Education | |
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| Reformers and Radicals | |
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| Introduction to Part Two | |
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| The Muslim Modernist: Syed Ahmad Khan | |
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| Educating the Muslims | |
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| A Modern Curriculum | |
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| The Two Eyes of India | |
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| Politics and Discord | |
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| The Agrarian Radical: Jotirao Phule | |
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| Educating the Masses | |
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| The Condition of the Peasantry | |
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| The Liberal Reformer: G. K. Gokhale | |
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| Elevating the Depressed Classes | |
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| On Hindu-Muslim Co-operation | |
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| A Call to Service | |
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| The Militant Nationalist: Bal Gangadhar Tilak | |
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| The Need for a National Hero | |
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| The Necessity for a Militant Nationalism | |
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| The Subaltern Feminist: Tarabai Shinde | |
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| A Comparison of Men and Women | |
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| Nurturing a Nation | |
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| Introduction to Part Three | |
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| The Multiple Agendas of M. K. Gandhi | |
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| The Power of Non-violence | |
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| 'Non-co-operation� with the British Raj | |
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| The Abolition of Untouchability | |
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| Hindu-Muslim Unity and Inter-faith Dialogue | |
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| The Position of Women | |
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| The Rooted Cosmopolitan: Rabindranath Tagore | |
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| India and the West | |
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| The Excesses of Nationalism | |
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| The Problem with Non-co-operation | |
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| The Annihilator of Caste: B. R. Ambedkar | |
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| The Revolution against Caste | |
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| How to Annihilate Caste | |
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| Why the Untouchables Distrust Gandhi | |
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| The Muslim Separatist: Muhammad Ali Jinnah | |
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| The Steps towards a Muslim Nation | |
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| The Radical Reformer: E. V. Ramaswami | |
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| The Fraud of Religion | |
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| On the Rights of Widows | |
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| The Case for Contraception | |
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| The Constraints of Marriage | |
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| The Socialist Feminist: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay | |
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| The Women's Movement in Perspective | |
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| A Socialist View of the Communal Question | |
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| The Renewed Agendas of M. K. Gandhi | |
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| Re-visiting Nationalism | |
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| Re-visiting Caste | |
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| Re-visiting Hindu-Muslim Co-operation | |
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| Village Renewal and Political Decentralisation | |
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| Debating Democracy | |
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| Introduction to Part Four | |
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| The Wise Democrat: B. R. Ambedkar | |
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| The Indian Constitution Defended and Interpreted | |
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| The Multiple Agendas of Jawaharlal Nehru | |
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| The Treatment of Minorities | |
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| On Planning and Economic Policy | |
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| Asia Redux | |
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| India in the World | |
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| The Conflict with China | |
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| The Rights of Women | |
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| The Hindu Supremacist: M. S. Golwalkar | |
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| The Hindu Nation and Its Enemies | |
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| The Muslim Threat | |
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| Not Socialism but Hindurashtra | |
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| The Indigenous Socialist: Rammanohar Lohia | |
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| Caste and Class | |
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| Banish English | |
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| The Grassroots Socialist: Jayaprakash Narayan | |
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| A Plea for Political Decentralisation | |
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| The Tragedy of Tibet | |
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| A Fair Deal for Kashmir | |
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| The Question of Nagaland | |
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| The Gandhian Liberal: C. Rajagopalachari | |
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| Our Democracy | |
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| Wanted: Independent Thinking | |
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| The Case for the Swatantra Party | |
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| Reforming the System of Elections in India | |
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| Freeing the Economy | |
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| Assisting the Backward | |
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| Why We Need English | |
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| The India We Want | |
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| The Defender of the Tribals: Verrier Elwin | |
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| Freedom for the Tribals | |
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| Neither Isolation nor Assimilation | |
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| A Tradition Re-Affirmed | |
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| Introduction to Part Five | |
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| The Last Modernist: Hamid Dalwai | |
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| The Burden of History | |
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| The Challenge of Secularism | |
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| For a United Front of Liberals | |
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| Epilogue: India in the World | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Index | |