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Makers of Modern India
AuthorRamachandra Guha
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
Published7 November 2012
PublisherPenguin India
ISBN9780143419242

Makers of Modern India is a non-fiction book written by Indian historian-scholar Ramachandra Guha and published by Penguin India on 7 November 2012. The book features profiles of selected personalities that laid the foundation of modern India: Ram Mohan Roy, Syed Ahmad Khan, 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 (2015-03-07). "Conformity as History: A review of Ramachandra Guha's Makers of Modern India". IndiaFacts. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  2. ↑ "Using "Makers of Modern India" to Teach about India". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  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.