* Preface vii Introduction ix The Citizen Historian 1* The Social Implications of the Political Thought of Raja Rammohun Roy 11* Raja Rammohun Roy and the Status of Women in Bengal in the Nineteenth Century 41* The Idea of the Village Community and the British Administrators 66* Politics and Poetics: Sir William Jones and the Debate on Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century 75* Satinath Bhaduri's 'The Vigil': An Essay on the Novel and History 92* Origins of Indian Nationalism: Some Questions on the Historiography of Modern India 104* The Tradition of Rama Gupta and the Indian Nationalist Historians 120* Polygamy and Genealogy in the Gupta Age: A Note on Feudalism from Above in Ancient India 126* My Discovery of Nehru: Autobiography as History 138.