About the Book: Righteous Republic
What Indias founders derived from Western political traditions as they
struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less
well-known is how Indias own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half
thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in
the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this
missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political
thought.
Taking five of the most important founding figures?Mohandas Gandhi,
Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R.
Ambedkar?Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in