O.P. Gauba's Indian Political Thought attempts to examine the major concepts and the prominent vocabulary of the ancient as well as modern Indian political thought in a critical and comparative perspective. Under ancient Indian thought, it inquires into the nature of Dharmashastra, Arthashastra, and Buddhist traditions with special reference to the views of Manu, Mahabharata, Kautilya, and the Buddhist philosophy. Then under modem Indian thought, it proceeds to identify the various streams of political thought. Each stream of thought is introduced with the theoretical issues involved in its approach, and the contribution of partici la thinkers thereto. It particularly focuses on the liberal stream, the idealist stream, the humanist stream, exponents of the Islamic thought, the socialist stream, the feminist stream and the critics of the caste system. Special attention has been paid to the social and political thought of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dadabhai Naoroji, M.G Ranade, Gopal krishna Gokhale, Swami Dayanand, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Sri Aurobindo, Veer Savarkar, Swami Vivekanand, Rabindranath Tagore, M.N. Roy, Syed Ahmad Khan, Iqbal, Jinnah, Narendra Dev, Japaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia, Pandita Ramabai, Jyotiba Phule, Dr. Ambedkar, and Periyar, apart from Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Contribution of each thinker and school of thought is sought to be examined objectively and impartially. Written in a concise and lucid style, this book is equipped with some unique, reader-friendly features such as flow-charts, comparative charts, explanatory diagrams, on-the-spot definitions, historical references and crisp quotations in boxes. It is designed to cater to the needs of the students of Indian Univ.