The volumes under the series 'Modern Indian Thinkers' will discuss the ideas of one specific author through a series of articles by different scholars. These articles will necessarily be a mix, whose exact nature cannot, and should not, be rigidly fixed beforehand; but the mix will be partly survey, partly criticism, partly located within a deeper problematic and the unveiling of such a problematic, and partly a carrying forward of the thought. The nature of the contents will itself evolve as we bring out more and more volumes.This series is not about 'eminent Indians' or about 'makers of modern India'. It is not even about Indians who have made outstanding contributions in different fields of thought per se. It is about thinkers belonging to different spheres of activity whose ideas bear upon the issue of India's social revolution. This does not mean that they should all belong to the social sciences, whether professionally or other-wise. The series will include scientists, artists from different disciplines, political activists, academicians from varied fields and intellectuals outside of the academia; but the choice of thinkers from this large field will be influenced by the degree to which their work provides a perspective on the carrying forward of India's social revolution.