'Glimpses into the Indian Mind - the Growth of Modern India' is a course offered in the B. Tech. programs at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Introduction
General Introduction; ‘His + Story’ or ‘History’ ?; The concepts of ‘nation’, ‘national identity’ and ‘nationalism’; Texts and Textualities: Comparative Perspectives.
Unit 2
Selected writings / selections from the complete works of the following authors will be taken up for study in a chronological order:
Raja Ram Mohan Roy; Dayananda Saraswati; Bal Gangadhar Tilak; Rabindranath Tagore;
Unit 3
Selected writings / selections from the complete works of the following authors will be taken up for study in a chronological order:
Swami Vivekananda; Sri Aurobindo; Ananda K. Coomaraswamy; Sister Nivedita; Mahatma Gandhi; Jawaharlal Nehru; B.R. Ambedkar; Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati, the Paramacharya of Kanchi; Dharampal; Raja Rao; V.S. Naipaul.
Conclusion.