THEMATIC TABLE OF CONTENTS
ART
Ananda Coomaraswamy: Art and Swadeshi
Abanindranath Tagore: “Oriental Art”
Amrita Sher-Gil and the “True” India
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya: The Fusion of Socialism, Nationalism, and Art
BANGLADESH, THE FORMATION OF
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: The Vision of Secular Pakistan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: The Great Tragedy
Hasan Zaheer: The Separation of East Pakistan
Asif Farrukhi: The 1971 War from a Child’s Perspective in Pakistan
Chapter 10, passim
CASTE RELATIONS
Swami Vivekananda: The Origins, Rationale, and Degradation of Caste
Jotirao Phule: The Tyranny of a Brahman-Dominated History
Jotirao Phule: Letter to Mahadev Govind Ranade
Gopal Krishna Gokhale: Improving the Lot of Low-Caste Hindus
Lala Lajpat Rai: Untouchability Must Go
Rabindranath Tagore: “The Problem of India”
Mohandas Gandhi: Untouchability and Swaraj
Mohandas Gandhi: The Sin of Untouchability
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar: The Evils of Caste
Mohandas Gandhi: Responses to Ambedkar’s Indictment
Periyar: How Gandhi’s Programs Initially Differed from Those of Other Congress Leaders
Periyar: On Gandhi’s Lunacy
The Constitution of India
The Mandal Commission and the Other Backward Classes
Viramma: The Life of a Rural Dalit Woman
Kumud Pawde: A Dalit Women Professor Describes Her Professional Life
Kancha Ilaiah: The Shudra Critique of Hindu Cooption
Dalit Poems of Resistance, Rejection, and Hope for Reconciliation
Balraj Madhok: The Indianization of All Aspects of National Life
CHRISTIANITY
Rammohan Roy: Hinduism Is Not Inferior to Christianity
Nilakantha Goreh: Doubts Concerning Christianity
Keshab Chandra Sen: The Asiatic Christ
Keshab Chandra Sen: An Indian National Church
Keshab Chandra Sen: A New Sacramental Ceremony
Dayanand Sarasvati: A Debate with a Christian
Shri Ramakrishna: Meeting Jesus
Swami Vivekananda: The Kindergartens of Religion
A. P. Phizo: The Demand for Self-Determination
M. S. Golwalkar: The Dangers of Muslims, Christians, and Communists
Sumit Sarkar: Secularism, Nationalism, and the Right to Conversion
Arun Shourie: Missionaries in India
Partha Chatterjee: Secularism and Tolerance
CONSTITUTION-MAKING
B. R. Ambedkar: Defending the Nation
B. R. Ambedkar: Looking to the Future in Light of the Past
The Constitution of India
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: Vision of a Secular Pakistan
Liaquat Ali Khan: The Objectives Resolution
The Munir Report: Can There Be an Islamic State?
Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi: The Islamist Vision of an Islamic System
General Ayub Khan: Why Military Rule Was Necessary for Pakistan
General Ayub Khan: The Conservative Religious Perspective and the Modern State
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: Marching Toward Democracy
Badruddin Umar: A Leftist Critique of the Constitution
Changes to the Constitution of Bangladesh
DEMOCRACY
B. R. Ambedkar: Can Democracy Survive in India?
Indira Gandhi: Broadcast to the Nation
Indira Gandhi: Promises for the Future and the Twenty-Point Program
J. P. Narayan: Total Revolution and Denouncing the Emergency
The Shah Commission: Report on the Emergency
Amartya Sen: Democracy, Economic Development, and Human Rights
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: The Vision of Secular Pakistan
Liaquat Ali Khan: The Objectives Resolution
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: Marching Toward Democracy
Benazir Bhutto: The Return to Democracy
EAST–WEST COMPARISONS
Abu Talib: Cultural Comparisons, India Versus the West
Keshab Chandra Sen: Loyalty to the British Nation
Dayanand Sarasvati: The Virtues of Europeans
Swami Vivekananda: Sisters and Brothers of America
Swami Vivekananda: India and the West
Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan: Lessons from London
Amir Ali: Islam as an Ethical Spirit That Is Beneficial for Women
Dadabhai Naoroji: The Pros and Cons of British Rule
Rabindranath Tagore: The Sunset of the Century
Amrita Sher-Gil: My Destiny as a Painter
Mohandas Gandhi: Hind Swaraj
M. N. Roy’s Analysis of Gandhi’s “Reactionary” Movement
V. D. Savarkar: The Glories of the Hindu Nation
Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi: The Islamist Vision of an Islamic System
ECONOMIC ISSUES
Bankers and Traders: The Powers Behind the Thrones
“Business Men are the Glory and the Ornament of the Kingdom”
Ghulam Husain Khan: The Nawab of Bengal, the Marathas, and the Jagat Seths
Dadabhai Naoroji: The Pros and Cons of British Rule
Mahadev Govind Ranade: India’s Need: State Guidance of Economic Development
Gopal Krishna Gokhale: Taxation Without Representation
Romesh Chunder Dutt: The Causes of India’s Poverty
Rabindranath Tagore: Congress “Presidential Address”
Jawaharlal Nehru: “Be Not Afraid”
Rabindranath Tagore: “The Call of Truth”
M. N. Roy’s Analysis of Gandhi’s “Reactionary” Movement
Jayaprakash Narayan: A Plea for a Communitarian Polity and Economy
G. D. Adhikari: National Unity Now!
Amartya Sen: Democracy, Economic Development, and Human Rights
Jawaharlal Nehru’s Vision: Socialism and Its Alternatives
Government Action: The First Five-Year Plan, 1952
Jagdish Bhagwati: The Results of Government Control of the Economy
Nandan Nilekani: India Entering a New Era of Growth
Mira Kamdar: Some Despair on Planet India
Vinoba Bhave: Get Rid of Institutions
Toward Equality: Report on the Status of Women
Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi: The Islamist Vision of an Islamic System
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: Marching Toward Democracy
Mahbub ul-Haq: 22 Families Own 66 Percent of Pakistan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: The Myth of Independence
Muhammad Yunus: Micro-credit and the Bangladeshi Miracle
EDUCATION
Rammohan Roy: A Letter on Education
Thomas Babington Macaulay: Speech to Parliament on the Government of India Bill
Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Minute on Education
Rassundari Devi: Learning to Read
Debendranath Tagore: The Conflict Between Sanskritic and Western Education
Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan: The Importance of Modern Western Education
Rabindranath Tagore: “The Exercise Book”
Muhammad Iqbal: The Need for Understanding Islam in the Light of Modern Knowledge
Lala Lajpat Rai: The Hindu–Muslim Problem, 1924
The Constitution of India
Myron Weiner: Dialogues on Education
Manmohan Singh: The Fundamental Right of Children to Elementary Education
Amartya Sen: Democracy, Economic Development, and Human Rights
Toward Equality: Report on the Status of Women
Shahid Javed Burki: Causes for a Deteriorating Educational System
Usman Ali Isani and Latif Virk: Education at All Levels: The National Reports
Pervez Hoodbhoy: Religion, Science, and Education: The Battle for Rationality
A. H. Nayyar: Religious Schools as Alternatives: The Madrasa Issue
FOREIGN RELATIONS IN THE POST-1947 PERIOD
Jawaharlal Nehru: Avoiding Foreign Entanglements
Krishna Menon: Bandung, and the Origin and Meaning of the Term “Non-alignment”
Jawaharlal Nehru: The Betrayal of India by the Chinese
Indira Gandhi: India and the World
American Ambassador Horace Hildreth: Pakistan Becomes a “Tolerable Risk”
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: The Myth of Independence
President Pervez Musharraf: The Symbiosis of Religion and Terrorism
GANDHI, IDEAS BY, EVALUATIONS OF
Chapter 6, passim
The Gandhi–Jinnah Correspondence on Rajagopalachari’s Formula
Subhas Chandra Bose: On the Gandhi-Jinnah Meeting
Mohandas Gandhi on Partition: Speeches at Four Prayer Meetings in June–July, 1947
J. P. Narayan: “Total Revolution”
Vinoba Bhave: Get Rid of Institutions
HINDU NATIONALISM
Bankim Chandra Chatterji: Hail to the Mother
Aurobindo Ghosh: India’s Mission: The Resurrection of Hinduism
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani: Reminiscences Political and Personal
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: The Glories of the Hindu Nation
S. P. Mookerjee: Hinduism Is “Synonymous with India’s Widest National Aspirations”
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: Defining Hindu Nationalism
M. S. Golwalkar: The Hindu Way of Life
Balraj Madhok: The Indianization of All Aspects of National Life
Bipan Chandra: What Is Communalism?
Mushirul Hasan: Secularism, Communalism, and the Religious Symbol of the Babri Masjid
The BJP Perspective: The Babri Masjid Was a Symbol of Conquest, Not Religion
Sumit Sarkar: Secularism, Nationalism, and the Right to Conversion
Arun Shourie: Missionaries in India
Cassette Culture and the Provocation of Religious Violence
Partha Chatterjee: Secularism and Tolerance
Aijaz Ahmad: The Rise and Power of the Hindu Right
HINDU–MUSLIM RELATIONS
Bahadur Shah: The Last Days of the Last Mughal Emperor
Dayanand Sarasvati: Critique of Islam
Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan: Hindu-Muslim Peaceful Coexistence Possible Only Under British Rule
Surendranath Banerjea: The Need for Indian Unity
Mahadev Govind Ranade: Hindu–Muslim Cooperation
Badruddin Tyabji and Rahmatullah Sayani: Congress Presidential Addresses
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan: The Indian National Congress as a Danger and a Folly
Bankim Chandra Chatterji: Hail to the Mother
Mohandas Gandhi: Hindu–Muslim Tension: Its Cause and Cure
Mohandas Gandhi: Responses to India’s Civil War in His Last Year
Mohamed Ali: To Self-Government Through Hindu–Muslim Unity, Nonviolence, and Sacrifice
Mohandas Gandhi: Response to the Ali Brothersʾ Critique
Nathuram Godse: Trial Speech
The Congress–Muslim League Scheme of Reforms, or Lucknow Pact, 1916
Sarojini Naidu: In Support of the Lucknow Part
Sarojini Naidu: For the Evolution of National Life
Rabindranath Tagore: A Letter to Kalidas Nag
The Bengal Pact: A Provincial Effort at Communal Rapprochement, 1923–24
Lala Lajpat Rai: The Hindu–Muslim Problem, 1924
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: “We Have to Live Together …”
The Cabinet Mission Plan: The Last British Offer
The Cabinet Mission Plan: Congress’ Response to the Plan
Lord Louis Mountbatten: Difficulties with Jinnah and the Imperceptible Nod
Abul Kalam Azad: The Muslims of India and the Future of India
Abul Kalam Azad: The Steps to Partition
The Sachar Commission and Indian Muslims
Asghar Ali Engineer: A Muslim’s Reactions to Sachar
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: A Vision of Secular Pakistan
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy: Speech Before the Dacca Provincial Assembly
Jasim Uddin: “The Chariot of Dhamrai”
Taslima Nasrin: “Shame”
INDIAN NATIONALISM AND THE EVALUATION OF BRITISH RULE
Henry Derozio: Poem to India
Rammohan Roy: For Freedom of the Press
Rammohan Roy: The Future of India
Swami Vivekananda: Modern India
Dadabhai Naoroji: The Pros and Cons of British Rule
Dadabhai Naoroji: The Blessings of British Rule
Dadabhai Naoroji: The Moral Impoverishment of India
Surendranath Banerjea: The Need for Indian Unity
Surendranath Banerjea: Faith in England
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan: The Indian National Congress as a Danger and a Folly
Badruddin Tyabji and Rahmatullah Sayani: Congress Presidential Addresses
Bankim Chandra Chatterji: Hail to the Mother
Bal Gangadhar Tilak: The Gītā Versus the Penal Code
Bal Gangadhar Tilak: The Tenets of the New Party
Surendranath Banerjea: Swadeshi in the Air
Aurobindo Ghosh: Nationalism Is the Work of God
Lala Lajpat Rai: The Coming Political Struggle
Lala Lajpat Rai: Why India Is in Revolt Against British Rule
Rabindranath Tagore: “The Problem of India”
Rabindranath Tagore: Where the Mind Is Without Fear
Ananda Coomaraswamy: Swadeshi: True and False
Mohandas Gandhi: The Great Trial
Mohandas Gandhi: Letter to Lord Irwin
Subhas Chandra Bose: Address to Mahatma Gandhi Over the Rangoon Radio on July 6, 1944
Sarat Chandra Bose: On the Mountbatten Plan (I) and (II)
Rabindranath Tagore: India’s National Anthem
Jawaharlal Nehru: India’s “Tryst with Destiny”
KASHMIR
Muhammed Iqbal: Fragments from Kashmir
The Treaty of Amritsar
India’s Appeal to the United Nations Security Council
The Council’s Resolution
Article 370 of the Constitution
Sheikh Abdullah: Kashmiri Patriot
Home Minister G. B. Pant: Rethinking the Plebiscite
Prime Minister Chaudhri Muhammad Ali: The Origins of the Dispute
Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan: The Cause of Freedom
Pakistan’s Answer to the Security Council Resolution
LANGUAGE ISSUES
[Vakil Ratnachand]: Hindi and Urdu in the Courtroom
G. D. Adhikari: National Unity Now!
Mohandas Gandhi on Partition: Prayer Meeting of June 12, 1947
The Constitution of India
The States Reorganization Commission
Balraj Madhok: The Indianization of All Aspects of National Life
Dhirendra Nath Dutta’s Historic Plea and Jinnah’s Address in Dhaka
Abdul Gaffar Caudhuri’s Famous Elegy for the February 1952 Martyrs
LAW, LEGAL INTERPRETATION, AND THE STATE
Shah Wali Allah: A General Approach to Legal Interpretation
Shah Wali Allah: The Causes for Disagreement Among the Schools of the Jurists
Shah Abd ul-Aziz: Islam in Danger
Muhammad Iqbal: Muslim Legislatures as a Means for the Evolution of Islamic Law
Muhammad Iqbal: Letters to Jinnah
Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi: The Islamist Vision of an Islamic System
General Zia: The Cold War Redux
Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961
Asma Jahangir and Hina Gilani: The Hudood Ordinance, 1979, and Opposition by Women’s Activists
THE LEFT: MARXISTS, COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS, AND SUBALTERNS
M. N. Roy: Analysis of Gandhi’s “Reactionary” Movement
Rajani Palme Dutt: An Indian Communist’s View from Britain
Jayaprakash Narayan: A Plea for a Communitarian Polity and Economy
G. D. Adhikari: National Unity Now!
Ranajit Guha: Challenging Received Interpretations
Jawaharlal Nehru’s Vision: Socialism and Its Alternatives
Government Action: The First Five-Year Plan, 1952
Jagdish Bhagwati: The Results of Government Control of the Economy
Nandan Nilekani: India Entering a New Era of Growth
Mira Kamdar: Some Despair on Planet India
Vinoba Bhave: Get Rid of Institutions
Leftward Move of the CPI, and the Telangana Rebellion
Uprising in Naxalbari: Declarations of the Revolutionaries
Smitu Kothari: The Narmada Movement, National Planning, and Popular Resistance
Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Literary Reflections
Badruddin Umar: Leftist Critique of the Constitution
Maulana Bhashani: Islamic Socialism and the Example of Mao Tse Tung
MARATHAS
The History of KhafiKhan and the Story of Tara Bai
Ahilya Bai Holkar: A Maratha Woman Ruler
The Marathas as Raiders: A Bengali Perspective
Forts and War: The Essential Features of Any Kingdom
The Chronicle of Bhausahib: Defeat in 1761 of the Marathas at Panipat
Ghulam Husain Khan: The Nawab of Bengal, the Marathas, and the Jagat Seths
Harsukh Rai’s Epitaph for the Eighteenth Century: Recognition of the Winners and Losers
Bal Gangadhar Tilak: The Gītā Versus the Penal Code
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani: Reminiscences Political and Personal
MUGHAL DECLINE, CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
Aurangzeb: Letters to His Sons
Shah Wali Allah: The Urgency of Political Instability
Iradat Khan: Decay at the Center of the Empire
Muhammad Qasim on Banda Bahadur’s Sikh Army
The History of KhafiKhan and the Story of Tara Bai
The Chronicle of Bhausahib: Defeat in 1761 of the Marathas at Panipat
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib: Refusing Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
See also Indian Rebellion of 1857
MUSLIM NATIONALISM, THE TWO-NATION THEORY, PAN-ISLAMISM, AND STATE FORMATION
Muhammad Iqbal: Indian Song
Muhammad Iqbal: Song of the Religious Community
Muhammad Iqbal: Muslims Are One in Soul
Muhammad Iqbal: A Separate State for Muslims Within India
Muhammad Iqbal: Letters to Jinnah
Choudhary Rahmat Ali: “The Fatherland of the Pak Nation”
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: Hindus and Muslims: Two Separate Nations
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: The Thrust Toward a New Muslim Nation
C. Rajagopalachari: Letter to M. A. Jinnah
The Gandhi–Jinnah Correspondence on Rajagopalachari’s Formula
The Cabinet Mission Plan: The Last British Offer
The Cabinet Mission Plan: Congress’ Response to the Plan
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Must There Be a Pakistan?
Lord Louis Mountbatten: Difficulties with Jinnah and the Imperceptible Nod
Abul Kalam Azad: The Muslims of India and the Future of India
Abul Kalam Azad: The Steps to Partition
Begum Shaista Ikramullah: Cherished Encounters with Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: A Vision of Secular Pakistan
Liaqat Ali Khan: The Objectives Resolution
The Munir Report: Can There Be an Islamic State?
Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi: The Islamist Vision of an Islamic System
General Ayub Khan: The Conservative Religious Perspective and the Modern State
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy: Speech Before the Dacca Provincial Assembly
Abul Mansur Ahmad: The Lahore Resolution Restored
Syed Ali Ahsan: The Failed Chance of Pakistan
Khondakar Abdul Hamid: Bengali Versus Bangladeshi Nationalism
NUCLEAR POWER
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi: “Buddha Smiled”
Dr. Raja Ramanna: “Noises of Protest”
Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee: Evolution in India’s Nuclear Policy
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh: On the Nuclear Treaty with the United States
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif: Nuclear Explosions
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: DEVOTION, REFORM, REVIVAL
Devotional Poetry by Ramprasad, Nagaridas, Tyagaraja, Dayaram, Muddupalani, Shah Abd ul-Latif, Bullhe Shah, Waris Shah, Khwaja Mir Dard
Rammohan Roy: The Need for a More Humane Morality and a Purer Mode of Worship
Debendranath Tagore: The Call to Renunciation, and a Decisive Dream
Debendranath Tagore: The Brahmo Samaj and Its Relation to Orthodox Hinduism
Dayanand Sarasvati: Awakening Against Idolatry
Dayanand Sarasvati: Against the Hindu Reform Movements of the Nineteenth Century
Shri Ramakrishna: First Encounter with Kālī
Shri Ramakrishna: With the Brahmo Samaj
Swami Vivekananda: Image Worship Has a Place
Swami Vivekananda: Vivekananda and His Master
Mahadev Govind Ranade: Revivalism Versus Reform
Surendranath Banerjea: Faith in Social Progress
Gopal Krishna Gokhale: The Servants of India Society
Lala Lajpat Rai: Reform Versus Revival
Rabindranath Tagore: The Renunciation of Renunciation
Muhammad Iqbal: Freedom, Love, and Time
Muhammad Iqbal: From Prophecy to Individual Judgment of One’s Inner and Outer Experience
The Constitution of India
SECULARISM
Jawaharlal Nehru’s Last Will and Testament
Mushirul Hasan: Secularism, Communalism, and the Religious Symbol of the Babri Masjid
Sumit Sarkar: Secularism, Nationalism, and the Right to Conversion
Partha Chatterjee: Secularism and Tolerance
Muhammad Ali Jinnah: The Vision of Secular Pakistan
Khondakar Abdul Hamid: Bengali Versus Bangladeshi Nationalism
Ghulam Azam: The Threat of a Secular West Bengal
Maulana Bhashani Warns His Country
Anisuzzaman: A Statement for Secularism in Bangladesh
Humayun Azad: A Prayer for Forgiveness
SELF-DETERMINATION: POST-INDEPENDENCE AGITATIONS FOR SOVEREIGNTY IN INDIA AND BANGLADESH (SEE ALSO KASHMIR)
V. P. Menon and the Integration of the Indian States
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s Call “for our faith, for the Sikh nation, for the oppressed”
A. P. Phizo: The Demand for Self-determination
Leftward Move of the CPI, and the Telangana Rebellion
Uprising in Naxalbari: Declarations of the Revolutionaries
Jana Samhati Samiti: The Chittagong Hill Tracts Guidelines
SIKHS
Muhammad Qasim on Banda Bahadur’s Sikh Army
The Sikh Religious Code: Lives of Discipline and Devotion
Lala Lajpat Rai: Addressing the British Public
Gurbachan Singh and Lal Singh Gyani: Demanding a Sikh State
Urvashi Butalia: Stories of Flight, Abduction, and Honor Killing
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s Call “for our faith, for the Sikh nation, for the oppressed”
THE UPRISING OF 1857
Shah Abd ul-Aziz: Islam in Danger
An Attempted Mughal Restoration: The Azamgarh Proclamation
The Rani of Jhansi: An Eyewitness Account
Bahadur Shah: The Last Days of the Last Mughal Emperor
Ghalib’s Delhi Diary: Storm and Turmoil
Bahadur Shah’s Defense
Queen Victoria’s Proclamation, November 1, 1858
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan on the Causes of the Mutiny
Sir William Wilson Hunter: Decisions of Ulema in Mecca, Lucknow, and Rampur
Lala Lajpat Rai: An Open Letter to Sayyid Ahmad Khan
VIOLENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE
Bal Gangadhar Tilak: The Gītā Versus the Penal Code
Aurobindo Ghosh: The Doctrine of Passive Resistance
Aurobindo Ghosh: The Morality of Boycott
Rabindranath Tagore: To Yone Noguchi
Mohandas Gandhi: Hind Swaraj
Mohandas Gandhi: A Disagreement with B. G. Tilak
Mohandas Gandhi: Statement Before the Disorders Inquiry Committee
Mohandas Gandhi: The Crime of Chauri Chaura
Mohandas Gandhi: The Great Trial
Mohandas Gandhi: Responses to India’s Civil War in His Last Year
Jawaharlal Nehru: Salt, the Word of Power
Sarojini Naidu: The Rowlatt Bills Controversy
Rabindranath Tagore: Non-Cooperation as Political Asceticism
Rajani Palme Dutt: An Indian Communist’s View from Britain
Mohamed Ali: To Self-Government Through Hindu–Muslim Unity, Nonviolence, and Sacrifice
“A Manifesto Against Gandhi, the Impossible Visionary”
Mohandas Gandhi: The Cult of the Bomb
Kartar Singh: The Philosophy of the Bomb
Subhas Chandra Bose, Address to Mahatma Gandhi Over the Rangoon Radio on July 6, 1944
Nathuram Godse: Trial Speech
Nirad Chaudhuri: The Old and New Militarisms of Hindu History
President Pervez Musharraf: The Symbiosis of Religion and Terrorism
Jahanara Imam’s Wartime Diary
Shamsur Rahman: “Salvation”
WOMEN
The History of KhafiKhān and the Story of Tara Bai
Ahilya Bai Holkar: A Maratha Woman Ruler
Abu Talib: Cultural Comparisons, India Versus the West
Rammohan Roy: In Defense of Hindu Women
Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar: Arguments for the Compassionate Treatment of Girls and Women
Rassundari Devi: Learning to Read
Bibi Ashraf: Learning to Write
Shri Ramakrishna: The Deification of Ramakrishna’s Wife
Amir Ali: Islam as an Ethical Spirit That Is Beneficial for Women
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati: The Plight of Indian Women
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati: An Autobiographical Account
Tarabai Shinde: The Treachery of Men
D. K. Karve and Anandibai Karve: Marrying a Widow: Memoirs
Ashraf Ali Thanawi: The Evils of Going Out
Nagendrabala Dasi: Advice for a New Patriarchy
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: Men in the Zenana
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: The Secluded Ones: Stories of Purdah
Cornelia Sorabji: Advocating for Women
Sarojini Naidu: Equality of Sexes
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani: Reminiscences Political and Personal
Rabindranath Tagore: “The Exercise Book”
Mohandas Gandhi: Untouchability, Women, and Swaraj
Subhas Chandra Bose: “The Rani of Jhansi Regiment”
Urvashi Butalia: Stories of Flight, Abduction, and Honor Killing
Viramma: The Life of a Rural Dalit Woman
Kumud Pawde: A Dalit Women Professor Describes Her Professional Life
Toward Equality: Report of the Committee on the Status of Women
Madhu Kishwar: Reality for Women in Politics
Asghar Ali Engineer: An Indian Muslim Reformer on the Plight of Women
Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961
Asma Jahangir and Hina Gilani: The Hudood Ordinance, 1979, and Opposition by Women’s Activists
Farida Shaheed and Tahmina Rashid: Women and the Women’s Movement in Pakistan
Fahmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed: Mothers and Daughters, in Urdu Poetry
Taslima Nasrin and the Injustices of Abuse
Muhammad Yunus: Micro-credit and the Bangladeshi Miracle