Whom to include in the list of Indian thinkers?

If I am to identify some distinctive Indian contributions in philosophy or political and social thinking, names of the following persons immediately come to our mind: Rammohan Roy, Aurobindo Ghosh, Rabindranath Tagore, M. K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Jai Prakash Narain, and Ram Manohar Lohia. Among them all except Ananda Coomaraswamy were Indians but all of them were educated outside India and were exposed to, and influenced by, Western ideas. Ananda Coomaraswamy was a Sri Lankan but he has had a significant impact on those looking for indigenous knowledge systems in India due to his writings on Buddhist and Hindu arts and religion. We have already talked about Rammohan Roy and we will learn more about Aurobindo Ghosh later. This lecture aims at introducing a few important thinkers of the 20th century India:

• A. K. Saran as a traditionalist thinker

• Jawaharlal Nehru and B. R. Ambedkar as two modernist thinkers, and

• Rammanohar Lohia as a critical thinker