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The volume includes extracts by such well-known personalities as Swami Vivekananda, Lajpat Rai, Bankim Chandra, Raja Rammohan Roy, K T Telang, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rabindranath Tagore, M G Ranade,, Mahatma Gandhi, and B R Ambedkar among many others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA valuable entry point to understanding the present day social problems faced by the Hindu community, this volume will be a useful supplementary text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of modern Indian history, sociology, and religious studies. 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