Introduction: struggle for nationhood

      Historical mythmaking

      Why bring back foreign rule?

      Always looking outside India

      Nationalism or colonialism by proxy?

      Decadent elite, incapable of leadership

      National education

      Nationalism and spiritualism

      Introduction: roots of distortion

      Ancient India: Age of freedom and synthesis

      Unity of India is of untold antiquity

      Medieval India: Dark Age and conflict

      The Freedom Movement

      Independent India: dynastic blunders

      Nehru and the China-Tibet blunder

      Kargil and its lessons

      Corruption of national institutions

      What should be done?

      Additional reading