Contesting Images of Futures of India : A Historical Overview ( 19th and 20th Century) Divyaraj Amiya, M. Phil. University of Yuebingen, Germany

Concentrating more on the images of futures of India in the works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1905), Mahatma Gandhi, Rahul Sankrityayana till Charu Mazumdar, Lohia and Vinoba Bhave attempt will be made to revisit the gaps between the projected futures of pre- and post-colonial India and the experienced reality of today. How can this hindsight help us in uncovering the underlying maps of teleological assumptions, units of analyses and areas of concern that were at the centre of their literery and political efforts ? Can this journey back to "ourselves" wil help us in narrowing the gaps between the projections of future today and the experienced reality of tomorrow ?

Prof Divyaraj Amiya is reader for Hindi at the Dept. of Indology and Comparative Religion, University of Tuebingen (Germany).