REPRESENTATIVE INDIANS : BY G. PARAMASWARAN PILLAI (HARDCOVER)

Representative Indians, is the reprint of the 2nd edition of this Popular book published in 1897. It is a collection of facinating biographies of many of the leading men of the nineteenth century who played a key role in making India a more progressive and forward a more progressive and forward looking country. These men were impressed in particular by modern science and the doctrines of reason and humanism. Besides, they shared the common belief that social and religious reforms were urgently needed.

In a sense this books is a retelling of the history of India in the nineteenth century –a century marked by significant milestones like the Mutiny, extinction of the East India Company and direct control of India by Her Majesty, the Queen of England, social reforms like the abolition of Sati and child remarriage, the Widow Remarriage Act, formation of the Indian National Congress etc.