Gandhi's Critics

Subrata Mukherjee is a former (retired) professor and Head (1996–9) in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He received the Fulbright-Hays grant to pursue his PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA from 1972 to 1976 and was the nodal person of the University Grants Commission’s Committee on Development of Curriculum for Political Science and Public Administration in 2001. He is on the editorial board of Korea Observer, and his published works are The Political Ideas of Rabindranath Tagore: Reflections of a Public Intellectual (2020, New Delhi), Essays in Marxist Theory and Practice (1991, Chennai) and Gandhian Thought and Marxist Interpretation (1991, New Delhi).Sushila Ramaswamy is a former (retired) professor in the Department of Political Science, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Delhi. She was a recipient of the Fulbright Postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (1991–2), and a British Council grant, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (1994) and was a teaching fellow at the National University of Singapore in 1996. She received the University Grants Commission’s Research Award for three years (2004–7). Her published works are Women in Political Thought: The Quest for Gender Equality and Beyond (2018, Hyderabad) and Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts (2003 and 2014, New Delhi).Mukherjee and Ramaswamy have co-authored Theoretical Foundations of Comparative Politics (2017, Hyderabad), A History of Socialism (2014, New Delhi), Democracy in Theory and Practice (2005, New Delhi), A History of Socialist Thought: From the Predecessors to the Present (2000, New Delhi) and A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx (1999 and 2012, New Delhi).

• 1 The Early Nationalists 2 Nehrus (Motilal and Jawaharlal) 3 Tagore 4 Churchill 5 Jinnah 6 Periyar 7 Savarkar 8 Ambedkar 9 Subhas Bose 10 The Marxists 11 Short Evaluations: India and the World