FEW POLITICAL CONCEPTS HAVE BEEN SEEN OR INTERPRETED FROM AS WIDE A RANGE OF ANGLES AS NATIONALISM. FROM THE MOST IDYLLIC VISION OF A COUNTRY, ON THE ONE HAND, TO THE MOST VILLAINOUS IDEOLOGY AT THE OTHER EXTREME. THIS VOLUME TREATS IT NEITHER AS IDYLLIC NOR EVEN AS AN END. IT LOOKS UPON IT AS A MEANS FOR ACHIEVING NATIONAL SYNERGY IN ORDER TO ENABLE INDIA TO REACH THE GOAL OF SURAAJ.

THE ADVERSARIES OF NATIONALISM INCLUDE PAN-ISLAMISM,COMMUNISM, SUB-NATIONALISM AND CASTEISM.