Makers of Modern India
First edition
AuthorRamachandra Guha
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
Published2010
PublisherPenguin India
ISBN9780143419242

Makers of Modern India is a non-fiction book written by Indian historian-scholar Ramachandra Guha and published by Penguin India in 2010. The book features profiles of selected personalities that laid the foundation of modern India: Ram Mohan Roy, Syed Ahmad Khan, Khuda Bakhsh, Jotirao Phule, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Tarabai Shinde, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, B. R. Ambedkar, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Periyar , Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay, Jawaharlal Nehru, M. S. Golwalkar, Rammanohar Lohia, Jayaprakash Narayan, C. Rajagopalachari, Verrier Elwin, and Hamid Dalwai.

The book has met with generally positive reviews.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ Mukherji, Saradindu (7 March 2015). "Conformity as History: A review of Ramachandra Guha's Makers of Modern India". IndiaFacts. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Using "Makers of Modern India" to Teach about India". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  3. ^ Dhulipala, Venkat (2014). "Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha". Journal of World History. 25 (2–3): 430–434. doi:10.1353/jwh.2014.0013. ISSN 1527-8050. S2CID 142596376.


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