About the Book: Debating Nationalism : Aurobindo Gandhi Pal Tagore and Savarkar
This book deals with how Nationalism was debated in the early decades of the
twentieth century India. The book focuses on the five texts of five nationalist
thinkers written during the period of 1905 to 1923 and chronologically, these
are: Sri Aurobindos Bhawani Mandir (1905), Gandhis Hind Swaraj (1909), Bipin
Chandra Pals The Spirit of Indian Nationalism (1910); Rabindranath Tagores
Nationalism (1917) and Vinayak Damodar Savarkars Essentials of Hindutva (1923).
The study shows that the themes that most prominently come up in these texts
are: a particular essential nature of India in contrast to