Books in the Pathfinders series

Offers a look at the life of Veena Dhanammal (1866-1938), who is considered the embodiment of 'classicism' in Karnatik music. This book locates her art within the cultural, social and intellectual milieu she inhabited, allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India.

Swadeshi revolutionary, co-founder of the Mexican Communist Part, member of the Communist International Presidium, and a major force in the rise of Indian communism, MN Roy was a colonial cosmopolitan icon of the interwar years. This book traces the historical context of his ideas from 19th-century Bengal to Weimar Germany.

Analyses Muhammad Iqbal's Islamism through his poetry. This book argues that his notion of an Islamist selfhood was expressed in his verse through the interplay between poetic tradition and creative innovation. It also considers how Iqbal expressed an Islamist geopolitical imagination in his work.

This work locates Benoy Kumar Sarkar, one of the foremost Indian sociologists, within the intellectual history of modern India. It shows how Sarkar was instrumental in constructing the idea of a national identity, and engages with his views on nationalism, masculinity, the nation-state, and their contemporary relevance.