This exceptional anthology brings together a collection of insightful expositions on modern South Asian thinkers and thoughts. Employing an encyclopaedic approach, this volume delves deep into the intellectual history of South Asia, transcending traditional academic perspectives and exploring a rich tapestry of ideas from various sources across time. The book departs from the imported ideas of South Asia, by delving into the diverse intellectual heritage of the region pertaining to political thinkers, social and cultural thinkers and activists.

Historically the book aids in approaching the enduring social and political challenges in South Asia. Drawing from an extensive array of works including polemics, commentaries, literary accounts, politics and poetics, modern thoughts in South Asia provide systematic solutions to the perennial issues that shape the region. Curatorial consequence of the modern thoughts from the region put together in this compendium is a collective consciousness on South Asia as an offspring of the epistemological interface between region and universe.

The readers of this book shall arrive at a profound insight into the social, political, and cultural intricacies, the transformative power of ideas and their enduring influence on the development of the region. This book would be useful to the students, researchers and teachers working in the field of Political Science, Philosophy, History, and Sociology, in varied course-curriculum like Indian Political Thought, Eastern Philosophy, South Asian Thought, Political Thinkers, Modern Political Thought.

Dev Nath Pathak, Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

Sanjeev Kumar H.M, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.