'The Argumentative Indian' Book Contents:

Preface – ix

Diacritical Notation for Sanskrit Words – xix

PART ONE

Voice and Heterodoxy

1. The Argumentative Indian – 3

2. Inequality, Instability and Voice – 34

3. India: Large and Small – 45

4. The Diaspora and the World – 73

PART TWO

Culture and Communication

5. Tagore and His India- 89

6. Our Culture, Their Culture – 121

7. Indian Traditions and the Western Imagination – 139

8. China and India – 161

PART THREE

Politics and Protest

9. Tryst with Destiny – 193

10. Class in India – 204

11. Women and Men – 220

12. India and the Bomb – 251

PART FOUR

Reason and Identity

13. The Reach of Reason – 273

14. Secularism and Its Discontents – 294

15. India through Its Calendars – 317

16. The Indian Identity – 334

Notes – 357

Index of Names – 393

General Index - 401