About the Book: Debating Culture
Barring the political agenda, the vital forces associated with Indias
nationalist movement were moral, literary and artistic. Many cultural
protagonists were vocal in saying that the regeneration of our society could
happen through the revival of our arts and culture, not by politics and
economics alone. This impulse was quite visible in cultural thought-leaders like
Ananda Coomaraswamy, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita, John
Woodroffe, Syamaprasad Mookerjee, K.M. Munshi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Rabindranath
Tagore made a strong case for developing a complete and moving orb of Indian
culture. This book delves deep into the vision of these thought-leaders in
making India a culturally strong