In Search of India’s Renaissance: Vol I & II

In Search of India’s Renaissance records the proceedings and papers of the National Seminar on Nation Building, Development Process and Communication, held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, in December 1988. Inspired by the eminent diplomat and thinker P. N. Haksar, the seminar brought together hundreds of scholars, scientists, journalists, artists, lawmakers, legal authorities and social and political activists from across India.

The set examines the challenges confronting modern India through historical, sociological, economic, political, legal, educational, cultural, scientific and technological perspectives. Its contributors include Romila Thapar, Satish Chandra, S. Gopal, Manmohan Singh, H. R. Khanna, Rajni Kothari, Mrinal Pande, Mulk Raj Anand, Abid Hussain and many other distinguished figures.

Volume I presents the discussions, interventions and précis of nearly eighty seminar papers. Volume II contains the complete texts of seventy-seven papers, offering a wide-ranging intellectual record of Indian thinking about nation-building, development, social change and cultural renewal at the end of the twentieth century.

Contributors: Eminent scholars, public intellectuals and policy specialists

Publisher: Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development—CRRID

Publication Years: Volume I, 1990; Volume II, 1992

Language: English

Format: Complete two-volume set

Pagination: Volume I, 244 pages; Volume II, 806 pages; 1,050 pages total

ISBN: None

Condition: Good