Dev Nath Pathak is currently a senior assistant professor at South Asian University, New Delhi (India). He teaches sociology there. He has a doctorate in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests consist broadly of cultural performances, art, music and popular cinema in the region of South Asia. In the past, he has taught at the Department of Sociology of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and Hindu College and Kamala Nehru College of University of Delhi, and also at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance. He has contributed articles to various journals and chapters in edited books. Some of his recent publications include Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication (2017); Another South Asia! (2017) and Intersections of Art, Sociology and Art History (2016). He is also a review editor with the journal Society and Culture in South Asia. Some of his publications are available at academia.edu. The thematic range of his writings includes sociology in South Asia, youth subjectivities, anomalies of education, politics of cinema, performance and visual arts. He was a Charles Wallace Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom, in 2015. Sanjeev Kumar H. M. is Professor of international relations and global politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India. He has previously taught at the South Asian University (SAARC University), New Delhi; the University of Allahabad, Allahabad; and the Karnatak University, Dharwad. His areas of interest include Islamic thought and international relations, international relations theory, the politics of Muslim identity and the question of world order, India–Pakistan relations, democratization of South Asia, South Asian security, and the history of ideas in South Asia. He has published extensively in reputed journals such as the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Third World Quarterly, Economic & Political Weekly, South Asian Survey and Society and Culture in South Asia on related themes. His publications include the textbook Modern South Asian Thinkers (2018), a co-edited encyclopaedic volume. He is currently working on the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) project ‘Popular Imaginaries and Discourses on Politics in India: Exploring Cultural Narratives as Alternative Sites of Knowledge Construction’. He is also working on a co-authored book titled Deconstructing Islamophobic Public Culture: Hindu Nationalism and the ‘Muslim Other’ in India.

• Preface: Curious Confession on the Work in WonderIntroduction: An Outline of Thoughtscape in South AsiaAli Shariati - Syed KashifAlvin Robert Cornelius - Azeemah SaleemAnagarika Dharmapala - Priyanka JhaAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy - Priyanka JhaAroj Ali Mutabbar - Ratan Kumar RoyAurobindo Ghosh - Pallabi Barah and Tanya SharmaBal Krishna Sama - Slok GyawaliBankim Chandra Chattopadhaya - Prashant BarthwalBhagat Singh - Aejaz Ahmad WaniBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar - Pia DavidBhudev Mukhopadhyay - Chandrani ChatterjeeBimal Krishna Matilal - Mithilesh Kumar JhaBishweshwar Prasad Koirala - Slok GyawaliBogyoke Aung San - Asha SundaramurthyDasho Karma Ura - Meghna KajlaDavid J. Kalupahana - S. Chaminda PadmakumaraDaya Krishna - Mithilesh Kumar JhaEdiriweera Sarachchandra - S. Chaminda PadmakumaraEqbal Ahmad - Aejaz Ahmad Wani and Zaboor AhmadErode Venkata Ramasamy Naicker (Periyar E. V. R.) - Rupak KumarFaiz Ahmad Faiz - Ratika GaurFayz Mohammad Katib Hazarah - Mohammad Hossein NouriHamza Alavi - Ratika GaurIsmat Chughtai - Ashmeet BilkhuJamyang Norbu - Hemadri Singh RanaJawaharlal Nehru - Rupak KumarJayaprakash Narayan - Mohd. IrfanJyotirao Phule - Nishant Kumar and Smita AgarwalKhan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Idris Hassan BhatKumari Jayawardena - Kamini SharmaLaxmi Prasad Devkota - Rashmi SheilaMahmud Tarzi - Omar SadrManvendra Nath Roy - Divyendu JhaMaulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani - Abdul MatinMaulana Abul Kalam Azad - Aishwarya Bhattacharyya and Ankit SinghMaulana Mehmood Madani - Nilanjana SenMichael Madhusudan Dutt - Chandrani ChatterjeeMohammad Iqbal - Talim AkhtarMohammad Ismail Muballigh - Mohammad Hossein NouriMohammad Qasim Akhgar - Mohammad Hussain HasratMohammed Ali Jinnah - Ishtiaq Ahmed ShauqMohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Nishant KumarMunshi Premchand - Tanya SharmaPandita Ramabai - Smita AgarwalPir Abu Bakr Siddqui - Abdul MatinRabindranath Tagore - Ngoru NixonRamchandra Dattatraya Ranade - Balaganapathi Devarakonda and Jayshree JhaRammanohar Lohia - Tanya SharmaRokeya Sakhawat Hossain - Minakshi BuragohainSadat Hasan Manto - Ashmeet BilkhuSajjad Zaheer - Parvez AlamSarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Geetesh NirbanSavitribai Phuley - Sankalp GurjarSayyid Abul A′la Maududi - Mohammad AliSeyyed Hossain Nasr - Ishtiaq Ahmed ShauqSwami Vivekananda - Nishant KumarSyed Ahmed Khan - Talim AkhtarTarabhai Shinde - Smita AgarwalTenzin Gyatso: The 14th Dalai Lama - Hemadri Singh RanaThray Sithu Sayagyi U Ba Khin - Asha SundaramurthyVinayak Damodar Savarkar - Aejaz Ahmad WaniIndex

Dev Nath Pathak is currently a senior assistant professor at South Asian University, New Delhi (India). He teaches sociology there. He has a doctorate in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests consist broadly of cultural performances, art, music and popular cinema in the region of South Asia. In the past, he has taught at the Department of Sociology of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and Hindu College and Kamala Nehru College of University of Delhi, and also at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance. He has contributed articles to various journals and chapters in edited books. Some of his recent publications include Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication (2017); Another South Asia! (2017) and Intersections of Art, Sociology and Art History (2016). He is also a review editor with the journal Society and Culture in South Asia. Some of his publications are available at academia.edu. The thematic range of his writings includes sociology in South Asia, youth subjectivities, anomalies of education, politics of cinema, performance and visual arts. He was a Charles Wallace Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom, in 2015. Sanjeev Kumar H. M. is Professor of international relations and global politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India. He has previously taught at the South Asian University (SAARC University), New Delhi; the University of Allahabad, Allahabad; and the Karnatak University, Dharwad. His areas of interest include Islamic thought and international relations, international relations theory, the politics of Muslim identity and the question of world order, India–Pakistan relations, democratization of South Asia, South Asian security, and the history of ideas in South Asia. He has published extensively in reputed journals such as the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Third World Quarterly, Economic & Political Weekly, South Asian Survey and Society and Culture in South Asia on related themes. His publications include the textbook Modern South Asian Thinkers (2018), a co-edited encyclopaedic volume. He is currently working on the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) project ‘Popular Imaginaries and Discourses on Politics in India: Exploring Cultural Narratives as Alternative Sites of Knowledge Construction’. He is also working on a co-authored book titled Deconstructing Islamophobic Public Culture: Hindu Nationalism and the ‘Muslim Other’ in India.

• Preface: Curious Confession on the Work in WonderIntroduction: An Outline of Thoughtscape in South AsiaAli Shariati - Syed KashifAlvin Robert Cornelius - Azeemah SaleemAnagarika Dharmapala - Priyanka JhaAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy - Priyanka JhaAroj Ali Mutabbar - Ratan Kumar RoyAurobindo Ghosh - Pallabi Barah and Tanya SharmaBal Krishna Sama - Slok GyawaliBankim Chandra Chattopadhaya - Prashant BarthwalBhagat Singh - Aejaz Ahmad WaniBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar - Pia DavidBhudev Mukhopadhyay - Chandrani ChatterjeeBimal Krishna Matilal - Mithilesh Kumar JhaBishweshwar Prasad Koirala - Slok GyawaliBogyoke Aung San - Asha SundaramurthyDasho Karma Ura - Meghna KajlaDavid J. Kalupahana - S. Chaminda PadmakumaraDaya Krishna - Mithilesh Kumar JhaEdiriweera Sarachchandra - S. Chaminda PadmakumaraEqbal Ahmad - Aejaz Ahmad Wani and Zaboor AhmadErode Venkata Ramasamy Naicker (Periyar E. V. R.) - Rupak KumarFaiz Ahmad Faiz - Ratika GaurFayz Mohammad Katib Hazarah - Mohammad Hossein NouriHamza Alavi - Ratika GaurIsmat Chughtai - Ashmeet BilkhuJamyang Norbu - Hemadri Singh RanaJawaharlal Nehru - Rupak KumarJayaprakash Narayan - Mohd. IrfanJyotirao Phule - Nishant Kumar and Smita AgarwalKhan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Idris Hassan BhatKumari Jayawardena - Kamini SharmaLaxmi Prasad Devkota - Rashmi SheilaMahmud Tarzi - Omar SadrManvendra Nath Roy - Divyendu JhaMaulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani - Abdul MatinMaulana Abul Kalam Azad - Aishwarya Bhattacharyya and Ankit SinghMaulana Mehmood Madani - Nilanjana SenMichael Madhusudan Dutt - Chandrani ChatterjeeMohammad Iqbal - Talim AkhtarMohammad Ismail Muballigh - Mohammad Hossein NouriMohammad Qasim Akhgar - Mohammad Hussain HasratMohammed Ali Jinnah - Ishtiaq Ahmed ShauqMohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Nishant KumarMunshi Premchand - Tanya SharmaPandita Ramabai - Smita AgarwalPir Abu Bakr Siddqui - Abdul MatinRabindranath Tagore - Ngoru NixonRamchandra Dattatraya Ranade - Balaganapathi Devarakonda and Jayshree JhaRammanohar Lohia - Tanya SharmaRokeya Sakhawat Hossain - Minakshi BuragohainSadat Hasan Manto - Ashmeet BilkhuSajjad Zaheer - Parvez AlamSarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Geetesh NirbanSavitribai Phuley - Sankalp GurjarSayyid Abul A′la Maududi - Mohammad AliSeyyed Hossain Nasr - Ishtiaq Ahmed ShauqSwami Vivekananda - Nishant KumarSyed Ahmed Khan - Talim AkhtarTarabhai Shinde - Smita AgarwalTenzin Gyatso: The 14th Dalai Lama - Hemadri Singh RanaThray Sithu Sayagyi U Ba Khin - Asha SundaramurthyVinayak Damodar Savarkar - Aejaz Ahmad WaniIndex

Dev Nath Pathak is currently a senior assistant professor at South Asian University, New Delhi (India). He teaches sociology there. He has a doctorate in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests consist broadly of cultural performances, art, music and popular cinema in the region of South Asia. In the past, he has taught at the Department of Sociology of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and Hindu College and Kamala Nehru College of University of Delhi, and also at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance. He has contributed articles to various journals and chapters in edited books. Some of his recent publications include Culture and Politics in South Asia: Performative Communication (2017); Another South Asia! (2017) and Intersections of Art, Sociology and Art History (2016). He is also a review editor with the journal Society and Culture in South Asia. Some of his publications are available at academia.edu. The thematic range of his writings includes sociology in South Asia, youth subjectivities, anomalies of education, politics of cinema, performance and visual arts. He was a Charles Wallace Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast, United Kingdom, in 2015. Sanjeev Kumar H. M. is Professor of international relations and global politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India. He has previously taught at the South Asian University (SAARC University), New Delhi; the University of Allahabad, Allahabad; and the Karnatak University, Dharwad. His areas of interest include Islamic thought and international relations, international relations theory, the politics of Muslim identity and the question of world order, India–Pakistan relations, democratization of South Asia, South Asian security, and the history of ideas in South Asia. He has published extensively in reputed journals such as the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Third World Quarterly, Economic & Political Weekly, South Asian Survey and Society and Culture in South Asia on related themes. His publications include the textbook Modern South Asian Thinkers (2018), a co-edited encyclopaedic volume. He is currently working on the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) project ‘Popular Imaginaries and Discourses on Politics in India: Exploring Cultural Narratives as Alternative Sites of Knowledge Construction’. He is also working on a co-authored book titled Deconstructing Islamophobic Public Culture: Hindu Nationalism and the ‘Muslim Other’ in India.

• Preface: Curious Confession on the Work in WonderIntroduction: An Outline of Thoughtscape in South AsiaAli Shariati - Syed KashifAlvin Robert Cornelius - Azeemah SaleemAnagarika Dharmapala - Priyanka JhaAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy - Priyanka JhaAroj Ali Mutabbar - Ratan Kumar RoyAurobindo Ghosh - Pallabi Barah and Tanya SharmaBal Krishna Sama - Slok GyawaliBankim Chandra Chattopadhaya - Prashant BarthwalBhagat Singh - Aejaz Ahmad WaniBhimrao Ramji Ambedkar - Pia DavidBhudev Mukhopadhyay - Chandrani ChatterjeeBimal Krishna Matilal - Mithilesh Kumar JhaBishweshwar Prasad Koirala - Slok GyawaliBogyoke Aung San - Asha SundaramurthyDasho Karma Ura - Meghna KajlaDavid J. Kalupahana - S. Chaminda PadmakumaraDaya Krishna - Mithilesh Kumar JhaEdiriweera Sarachchandra - S. Chaminda PadmakumaraEqbal Ahmad - Aejaz Ahmad Wani and Zaboor AhmadErode Venkata Ramasamy Naicker (Periyar E. V. R.) - Rupak KumarFaiz Ahmad Faiz - Ratika GaurFayz Mohammad Katib Hazarah - Mohammad Hossein NouriHamza Alavi - Ratika GaurIsmat Chughtai - Ashmeet BilkhuJamyang Norbu - Hemadri Singh RanaJawaharlal Nehru - Rupak KumarJayaprakash Narayan - Mohd. IrfanJyotirao Phule - Nishant Kumar and Smita AgarwalKhan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Idris Hassan BhatKumari Jayawardena - Kamini SharmaLaxmi Prasad Devkota - Rashmi SheilaMahmud Tarzi - Omar SadrManvendra Nath Roy - Divyendu JhaMaulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani - Abdul MatinMaulana Abul Kalam Azad - Aishwarya Bhattacharyya and Ankit SinghMaulana Mehmood Madani - Nilanjana SenMichael Madhusudan Dutt - Chandrani ChatterjeeMohammad Iqbal - Talim AkhtarMohammad Ismail Muballigh - Mohammad Hossein NouriMohammad Qasim Akhgar - Mohammad Hussain HasratMohammed Ali Jinnah - Ishtiaq Ahmed ShauqMohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Nishant KumarMunshi Premchand - Tanya SharmaPandita Ramabai - Smita AgarwalPir Abu Bakr Siddqui - Abdul MatinRabindranath Tagore - Ngoru NixonRamchandra Dattatraya Ranade - Balaganapathi Devarakonda and Jayshree JhaRammanohar Lohia - Tanya SharmaRokeya Sakhawat Hossain - Minakshi BuragohainSadat Hasan Manto - Ashmeet BilkhuSajjad Zaheer - Parvez AlamSarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Geetesh NirbanSavitribai Phuley - Sankalp GurjarSayyid Abul A′la Maududi - Mohammad AliSeyyed Hossain Nasr - Ishtiaq Ahmed ShauqSwami Vivekananda - Nishant KumarSyed Ahmed Khan - Talim AkhtarTarabhai Shinde - Smita AgarwalTenzin Gyatso: The 14th Dalai Lama - Hemadri Singh RanaThray Sithu Sayagyi U Ba Khin - Asha SundaramurthyVinayak Damodar Savarkar - Aejaz Ahmad WaniIndex